Question

Using R CMD Sweave my .tex file is always generated in my HOME directory. Is it possible to change this? I mean i could mv it with a shell script, but I guess there`s some better trick to do it

@Dirk:
I used the script that I posted here and pdflatex does not find the file because it’s always written to the HOME directory of my user.

Answer 1

So here’s what worked for me… No argument for R CMD Sweave but still a workaround.
the use of basename and dirname helped a lot 🙂

#!/bin/bash

myfile=$(/usr/bin/osascript << EOT
tell app "AppleScript Runner"
activate
    return posix path of (choose file)
    end
    EOT)

    if [ $? -eq 0 ]
    then
        echo $myfile
        R CMD Sweave $myfile
        no_ext=`basename $myfile .Rnw`
        directory=`dirname $myfile`
        mv ~/$no_ext.tex $directory/$no_ext.tex
        /usr/local/texlive/2009/bin/universal-darwin/pdflatex -output-directory       $directory $no_ext.tex
        open $directory/$no_ext.pdf
        else
            echo "User canceled"
            fi