[Rcpp-devel] Work-around for Stangle failure on Rcpp-modules.Rnw?

[Douglas Bates]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Douglas Bates <bates at stat.wisc.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Douglas Bates <bates at stat.wisc.edu> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 28 June 2010 at 10:00, Douglas Bates wrote:
>>> | $ make Rcpp-extending.pdf
>>> | rm Rcpp-extending.Rnw
>>> | cp -f Rcpp-extending/Rcpp-extending.Rnw .
>>> | Rscript -e "require(highlight); driver <- HighlightWeaveLatex(boxes =
>>> | TRUE, bg = 'white' ); Sweave( 'Rcpp-extending.Rnw', driver = driver );
>>> | "
>>> | Loading required package: highlight
>>> | Loading required package: tools
>>> | Loading required package: codetools
>>> | Loading required package: parser
>>> | Loading required package: Rcpp
>>> | Loading required package: methods
>>> | Writing to file Rcpp-extending.tex
>>> | Processing code chunks ...
>>> |  1 : term verbatim
>>> | Loading required package: inline
>>> |  3 : term verbatim
>>> |  4 : term tex
>>> | sh: highlight: not found
>>>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>
>>> Please try
>>>
>>>    sudo apt-get install highlight
>>
>> Thanks.  Once I have installed the Ubuntu package I can build the pdf files.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Doug
>
> And I'm not sure why but building the PDF files for the vignettes
> bypasses the problem with Stangle so not I am successful at installing

s/not/now/

> the latest Rcpp.
>
> Thanks.
> Doug
>>> We do not pre-test for this as clearly as we maybe should. It is also 'just'
>>> in the pdf-creation so we have not added it to SystemRequirements. Maybe we
>>> should.
>>>
>>> In short, 'highlight' has become overloaded as there is Romain's on CRAN and
>>> Andre's in Debian and elsewhere.  Some of Andre's code may end up in Romain's
>>> R package at which point we may no longer require the external binary.
>>>
>>> --
>>>  Regards, Dirk
>>>
>>
>