Sweave generating invalid LaTeX

Question

I've encountered a problem when I'm using Sweave to convert an .Rnw file into a .tex file. Sweave is replacing three options from hyperref's \hypersetup block with the value NA.

This is the section in the .Rnw file

\hypersetup{
baseurl={.},
%bookmarks=true,         % show bookmarks bar?
unicode=false,          % non-Latin characters in Acrobat’s bookmarks
pdftoolbar=true,        % show Acrobat’s toolbar?
pdfmenubar=true,        % show Acrobat’s menu?
pdffitwindow=false,     % window fit to page when opened
pdfstartview={FitH},    % fits the width of the page to the window

The resulting LaTeX for the same section comes out as:

\hypersetup{
baseurl={.},
%bookmarks=true,         % show bookmarks bar?
NA
NA
NA
pdffitwindow=false,     % window fit to page when opened
pdfstartview={FitH},    % fits the width of the page to the window

As far as I can tell the rest of the document is fine. Removing the offending sections allows the compilation of the LaTeX. I'm running R 2.13.1. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Alternatively, could anyone suggest what Sweave finds objectionable about those three options in particular?

Answer 1

The problem is that you have cut and pasted the \hypersetup commands from a PDF, and there are invalid characters in the code, specifically the right single quotation mark ’ If you replace those characters with regular single quote marks ', the file should compile. This is caused by the way Sweave handles its input, not by the TeX file itself.

So the reason that it is those three lines is that they all contain the string "Acrobat’s".

Update

After some troubleshooting it seems that the underlying problem is a mismatch between the actual file encoding and the locale that R assumes when it runs Sweave on the file. In my particular case (running Sweave from within TeXShop) the locale wasn't being set properly. The solution was to add

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

to the script within TeXShop that was running Sweave. Depending on how you are running Sweave the problem may be the same: you need to make sure that the encoding of the file matches the encoding that R is using when Sweave processes the file. If you are running from within an editor, check the script that it uses to compile Sweave documents; if you are running from the command line, check that your .bashrc or .profile has the locale set correctly.

For a minimal test document to show this, see this stackoverflow question: Sweave doesn't seem to get .Rnw file encoding right.

Thanks a lot to Aaron for helping to troubleshoot this problem with me.