[ESS] ess-error: ESS process not ready. Wasn't there a fix for this? Make Sweave -> pdflatex work. Help?

[Martin Maechler]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 22:32, Kasper Daniel Hansen
<kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> This won't really help you with your main questions, but I have found
>  texi2pdf
> to be extremely nice for tex'ing.  Essentially it runs pdflatex +
> bibtex as many times as necessary.  It also has a "-c" argument which
> essentially removes all intermediate files (like .aux, .bbl etc).  I
> tend to tex from the command line, so I don't know how to make it work
> with AUCTeX.
>
> Kasper

That's why  texi2pdf  is the default command, run by  M-n P..
I use Sweave most of the time with these two:

M-n s  {Sweave whole buffer --> *.tex}
M-n P  {pdflatex *.tex; bibtex ...}

but also am glad that I can send single lines of R code, or one chunk, or ...
If I want.

Martin

> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> How are we using Sweave inside Emacs these days?  I'm just wondering
>> how you use it on a day-to-day basis.
>>
>> I'd like to be able to send individual chunks to an open R session for
>> development, and then compile the whole document as well. I need to
>> make sure pdflatex is run 2 or 3 times, and some docs need bibtex in
>> there.
>>
>> In Debian with Emacs 23.3 and ess-5.13, I have auctex installed as
>> well.  Auctex won't work along with ESS. Right?
>>
>> Inside Emacs, after using the pull down menu Noweb ->
>> Sweaving/Tangling -> Sweave,  runs the program through R, but nothing
>> else works.
>>
>> ess-error: ESS process not ready. Finish your command before trying again.
>> ess-error: ESS process not ready. Finish your command before trying again.
>>
>> After reviewing list emails from last winter, I installed the ESS from
>> svn, and same thing happens.
>>
>> However, in the ESS from SVN, there is a change. New menu items
>> Command -> Sweave and Command -> LaTeXSweave.
>> That does work!
>>
>> However, I can't say for sure if pdflatex is run the correct number of times.
>>
>> pj
>>
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>> University of Kansas
>>
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