From edd@debian.org  Fri Oct 11 15:52:13 2002
From: edd@debian.org (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:52:13 -0500
Subject: Sweave (PR#2142)
Message-ID: <E18019B-0000NW-00@sonny.eddelbuettel.com>


> Nope, R.home is correct.  The problem is that Sweave is not escaping \'s
> (nor spaces, although I believe they will not occur in R.home()'s output).
> Some Windows applications insist on \, but Windows' versions of TeX seem
> to insist on /, so applications calling TeX need to convert the path to
> Unix style.

I got bitten by that under Cygwin with R in the default c:\Program Files\R.
Cygwin's LaTeX (i.e. tetex) then breaks. A location without spaces in the
path works fine.   

Dirk

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Sweave (PR#2142)
Dirk Eddelbuettel