When you write a large structured document using LaTeX, it is wise to use \input{} and/or \include{} commands (see here for a nice description). However, you can not "fully" use these two commands with Sweave documents. You can use them, but when you weave the master file, the \input{} and \include{} files are not weaved! The author of Sweave instead implemented the \SweaveInput{} command. If you still want to use \input{} and/or \include{}, then you can take the following approach.
Say we have a master file file0.Rnw, which includes file1.Rnw and file2.Rnw. Then you need first to run Sweave on file1.Rnw and file2.Rnw and at the end on file0.Rnw. Warning! - there can be no interaction between files, which basically means that you can use this approach only if each file represents a complete analysis. This might be a suitable Makefile in such cases:
If master file is a pure LaTeX file, you can change the all target to:all: sweave # Compile the whole document
Sweave.sh --latex2pdf file0.Rnw
sweave: # Sweave individual files
Sweave.sh file1.Rnw file2.Rnw
all: sweave # Compile the whole document
Sweave.sh --noweave --latex2pdf file0.tex
4 comments:
Is there a way to use \SweaveInput with LyX? When I do:
\SweaveInput{myfile.R}
I get errors which I think stem from the fact that myfile.R isn't in the temporary LyX directory that LyX sets up for compilation, because if I put the file in that directory, it works. It doesn't work with full filepaths either. Is there a way to get LyX to handle this properly and automagically as it does with \inputted pdf or jpeg etc. files?
Thank you,
Mark
Mark, this is a known issue[1] and some solutions were proposed (read the thread at [1]), but it will probably take some time to polish this. The problem lies in tha fact that LyX moves a file to a temporary directory during the compilation, i.e., from /home/me/test.lyx to say /tmp/test.lyx. However, a full path should work! Can you show an example of a full path that does not work?
[1]http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/115323/focus=115334
I swapped out the \include{} statements with \SweaveInput{} statements in my main document and everything wors like a charm. Yhank you for the tip, and have a good day, Clay
Thanks for the tip on using Sweaveinput instead of include, that was just what I needed.
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