Re: [AUCTeX] Three new user questions

[Andrei Sobolevskii]

Hi,

On 22 Jun 2008, at 05:19, Ista Zahn wrote:

> > > > 3)  I use Sweave a lot, and I want to be able to run Sweave (I  
> > > > have a
> > > > shell script for this) on foo.Rnw, then latex on foo.tex. The  
> > > > problem
> > > > is that if I ask the Sweave script to run latex it tries to run  
> > > > latex
> > > > on foo.Rnw instead of foo.tex. Does anyone know how to make this  
> > > > work
> > > > properly?
> > >
> > > How do you call the Sweave script?  Did you add "nw", "Rnw" and  
> > > "Snw" to
> > > `TeX-file-extensions' and `reftex-file-extensions'?
> > I think aquamacs emacs is set up this way by default. I didn't add  
> > anything, but the editor seems to recognize .Rnw files and loads  
> > AUCTEX and RefTEX automatically.
> >
> > > Frankly I don't have much experience with how AUCTeX has to be set  
> > > up
> > > for Sweave.  The above I picked up from some discussions on this  
> > > list.
> > > But since there are some Sweave users who also use AUCTeX perhaps  
> > > you
> > > get some information by searching the archives of the Sweave mailing
> > > lists or asking there.  Unless some Sweave user lurks on this list  
> > > and
> > > shares her or his wisdom.
> > Thanks for the tip, I'll ask this question in a more appropriate  
> > forum. On the other hand I'm worried that I'll simply be told to  
> > ask on an emacs mailing list because the question is really an  
> > AUCTEX question. Basically, I want the  typesetting command to  
> > refer to foo.tex even though I'm calling it from a buffer named  
> > foo.Rnw.

Unfortunately I am not a Sweave user but some time ago I looked into  
its integration with AUCTeX.  Here is a relevant thread on another  
mailing list that I was able to find:

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/ess-help/2006-August/003586.html

HTH,
Andrei