Using texlive, why can I compile knitr Rnw file to pdf from R but not the tex ouput from knit R to pdf

Question

knitr compiles and produces pdf file but the tex file that is produced by knitr does not compile (with livetex)

Here is test.Rnw

\documentclass[letter]{article}
\title{y}
\author{z}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
<<assignment, echo = TRUE>>=
(X <- 10)
@
\end{document}

The following produces pdf file: texi2pdf(file = "test.tex", clean = TRUE)

The reamble that is produced by knitr has a problem:

  \usepackage{framed}
\makeatletter
\newenvironment{kframe}{%
 \def\at@end@of@kframe{}%
 \ifinner\ifhmode%
  \def\at@end@of@kframe{\end{minipage}}%
  \begin{minipage}{\columnwidth}%
 \fi\fi%
 \def\FrameCommand##1{\hskip\@totalleftmargin \hskip-\fboxsep
 \colorbox{shadecolor}{##1}\hskip-\fboxsep
     % There is no \\@totalrightmargin, so:
     \hskip-\linewidth \hskip-\@totalleftmargin \hskip\columnwidth}%
 \MakeFramed {\advance\hsize-\width
   \@totalleftmargin\z@ \linewidth\hsize
   \@setminipage}}%
 {\par\unskip\endMakeFramed%
 \at@end@of@kframe}
\makeatother

Here are the errors:

    \begin{minipage} does not have matching end; at least one unbalanced
 begin-end  test.tex    /tests-R    line 39 Problem

\end{minipage} found with no preceding \begin   test.tex    /tests-R    line 38

For obvious reasons, at least one publisher wants the tex document, not the Rnw document

Answer 1

I had this problem too, but it seems to be a path issue. If yourfile.Rnw is on a path with spaces, knit2pdf will throw an error and you can see it clearly in texput.log not yourfile.log as the error message states. However if you compile the yourfile.tex by hand, everything seems to be okay.

Perhaps @Yihui can shed some light on why this might be the case.

EDIT Here's a log of the output:

knit2pdf("test.Rnw")


processing file: test.Rnw
  |......................                                           |  33%
  ordinary text without R code

  |...........................................                      |  67%
label: assignment (with options) 
List of 1
 $ echo: logi TRUE

  |.................................................................| 100%
  ordinary text without R code


output file: test.tex

Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet,  : 
  Running 'texi2dvi' on 'test.tex' failed.
Messages:
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: pdflatex exited with bad status, quitting.
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: see test.log for errors.

test.log doesn't exist in the working directory; texput.log does and contains this message:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.15 (TeX Live 2014) (preloaded format=pdflatex 2014.7.13)  24 JUL 2014 10:04
entering extended mode
 restricted \write18 enabled.
 file:line:error style messages enabled.
 %&-line parsing enabled.
**\nonstopmode \input /Users/james/Documents/stack exchange/test.tex

! Emergency stop.
<*> ...opmode \input /Users/james/Documents/stack 
                                                  exchange/test.tex
*** (job aborted, file error in nonstop mode)

Answer 2

I also didn't receive an error. Used the "Compile PDF" button from RStudio, which created following *.tex-file, which I can compile using TexMaker:

\documentclass[letter]{article}
\usepackage[]{graphicx}
\usepackage[]{color}
%% maxwidth is the original width if it is less than linewidth
%% otherwise use linewidth (to make sure the graphics do not exceed the margin)
\makeatletter
\def\maxwidth{ %
\ifdim\Gin@nat@width>\linewidth
\linewidth
\else
\Gin@nat@width
\fi
}
\makeatother

\definecolor{fgcolor}{rgb}{0.345, 0.345, 0.345}
\newcommand{\hlnum}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.686,0.059,0.569}{#1}}%
\newcommand{\hlstr}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.192,0.494,0.8}{#1}}%
\newcommand{\hlcom}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.678,0.584,0.686}{\textit{#1}}}%
\newcommand{\hlopt}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0,0,0}{#1}}%
\newcommand{\hlstd}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.345,0.345,0.345}{#1}}%
\newcommand{\hlkwa}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.161,0.373,0.58}{\textbf{#1}}}%
\newcommand{\hlkwb}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.69,0.353,0.396}{#1}}%
\newcommand{\hlkwc}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.333,0.667,0.333}{#1}}%
\newcommand{\hlkwd}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.737,0.353,0.396}{\textbf{#1}}}%

\usepackage{framed}
\makeatletter
\newenvironment{kframe}{%
\def\at@end@of@kframe{}%
\ifinner\ifhmode%
\def\at@end@of@kframe{\end{minipage}}%
\begin{minipage}{\columnwidth}%
\fi\fi%
\def\FrameCommand##1{\hskip\@totalleftmargin \hskip-\fboxsep
\colorbox{shadecolor}{##1}\hskip-\fboxsep
 % There is no \\@totalrightmargin, so:
 \hskip-\linewidth \hskip-\@totalleftmargin \hskip\columnwidth}%
\MakeFramed {\advance\hsize-\width
\@totalleftmargin\z@ \linewidth\hsize
\@setminipage}}%
{\par\unskip\endMakeFramed%
\at@end@of@kframe}
\makeatother

\definecolor{shadecolor}{rgb}{.97, .97, .97}
\definecolor{messagecolor}{rgb}{0, 0, 0}
\definecolor{warningcolor}{rgb}{1, 0, 1}
\definecolor{errorcolor}{rgb}{1, 0, 0}
\newenvironment{knitrout}{}{} % an empty environment to be redefined in TeX

\usepackage{alltt}
\title{y}
\author{z}
\IfFileExists{upquote.sty}{\usepackage{upquote}}{}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{knitrout}
\definecolor{shadecolor}{rgb}{0.969, 0.969, 0.969}\color{fgcolor}\begin{kframe}
\begin{alltt}
\hlstd{(X} \hlkwb{<-} \hlnum{10}\hlstd{)}
\end{alltt}
\begin{verbatim}
## [1] 10
\end{verbatim}
\end{kframe}
\end{knitrout}

\end{document}