[R] odfTable: how to escape <

[Francesco Cernuto]

Max,

It doesn't seem much elegant, but it works fine.
I will follow with great interest this package developent.

Francesco

Kuhn, Max ha scritto:
> Francesco,
>
> Does everything work for you now?
>
> Max
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Francesco Cernuto
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 5:33 AM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] odfTable: how to escape <
>
> Max,
>
> thanks for your suggestions. I 'm now better oriented in reading again 
> last October article on Rnews and the odfWeave package documentation.
> I realized that odfWeave writes xml output in UTF-8 encoding as 
> content.xml first row shows:
> |<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> |
> As I want also use special characters and accents not only as column, 
> but also as row headings, I have directly created a row names character 
> vector using xml entities:
>
> In R:
>
> library(odfWeave)
> x <- matrix(sample(1:100,24,replace=TRUE),ncol=8)
> dimnames(x) <- list(c("Saint 
> Honor&#233;","S&#228;cher-Torte","Cr&#232;me Chantilly"),c('< 
> 35','35-39','40','45-49','50-54','55-59','59-64',' >64'))
> odfWeave("test.odt","test.out.odt")
>
>
> In test.odf document (after adding an extra-column for row names):
>
> <<TabTest, echo=FALSE,results = xml>>=
> tabxStyles <- tableStyles(cbind(rep(1,3),x), header=NULL)
> odfTable(
> x,
> useRowNames = TRUE,
> colnames = c(" ",odfTranslate(dimnames(x)[[2]],toR=FALSE)),
> styles=tabxStyles)
> @
>
>
> ||Francesco
> |
>
>
> |Kuhn, Max ha scritto:
>   
>> Francesco,
>>
>> odfTable writes out a table in xml format directly into an xml file.
>>     
> The
>   
>> issues is that the characters "<" and ">" (among others) have to be
>> converted to "&gt;" and "&lt;".
>>
>> I will build a new version where this happens automatically. In the
>> meantime, you should be able to use the colnames argument of odfTable
>> and odfTranslate to convert the column headings:
>>
>>   > odfTranslate("these need to be fixed: < and >", toR = FALSE)
>>   [1] "these need to be fixed: &lt; and &gt;"
>>
>> Max
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Francesco
>>     
> Cernuto
>   
>> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 10:06 AM
>> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> Subject: [R] odfTable: how to escape <
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I'm appreciating odfWeave as a nice reporting tool, but I had some
>>     
> pain 
>   
>> in producing tables with odfTable command
>> where the first column began with < or > such as in age class heading,
>>     
>
>   
>> for example:
>> <35
>> 35-39
>> 40-49
>> 50-50
>>  >60
>> In this case, to avoid a content.xml error, I had to change <35 in
>>     
> less 
>   
>> than 35 and > 60 in over 60.
>>
>> Anyone knows how to escape those characters while producing a table in
>>     
> R
>   
>> or in a document chunk?
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Francesco Cernuto
>>
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