[R] problem with odfWeave

[Ista Zahn]

Hi Joel,
Can you paste a minimal example illustrating your problem?
Thanks,
Ista
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Joel GOMBIN <joel.gombin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> thanks to Sarah for her help. That works fine, except for one thing. When I
> generate my reports, using odfWeave(), some cells in my tables are filled
> with the expression I put in the input file (/Sexpr(...)) instead of the
> result of its evalutation. I suspected there was a problem in the XML code ;
> indeed, when I look at the content.xml file of the input ODT file, there are
> some <text:soft-page-break/> tags in the middle of cells.
>
> Is it any way of instructing OpenOffice not to put these tags, or do I have
> no other choice than removing them by hand in the content.xml file ?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
>
> Joel
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Joel,
>>
>> If you actually want to make a table, you need to use odfTable. There
>> are examples
>> in the help for that function. Same for odfCat, but instead of
>> creating a table, that will
>> print your output.
>>
>> eg to print your output:
>>
>> <<echo=FALSE>>=
>>    odfCat("some random normal data:", rnorm(5)) # from the help file
>> @
>>
>> or to make a table:
>>
>> <<echo=FALSE>>=
>>    x <- matrix(1:12, ncol=3)
>>    colnames(x) <- c("a", "b", "c")
>>    odfTable(x)
>>    odfTableCaption("A useless table")
>> @
>>
>> ODT files are actually compressed XML files. If you just print from
>> within R, there are no
>> XML tags around your output and OpenOffice has no idea what to do with it.
>> The
>> various odfSomething R functions wrap the R output in XML tags so OOo will
>> understand it in the final output.
>>
>> Sarah
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Joel GOMBIN <joel.gombin at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I have encountered problems using odfdWeave. I actually have the same
>> error
>> > message as was reported in this message (
>> > http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e6/help/09/01/0872.html), but I don't
>> > quite understand the answer made by Max Kuhn ("You need to cat the
>> results
>> > using odfCAt, otherwise you are just writing the output with no XML
>> around
>> > it."). What I am supposed to do exactly ?
>> >
>> > What I'm trying to do is writing values I have computed earlier in the
>> cells
>> > of a table in an ODT file.
>> >
>> > I'm very grateful in advance for any help...
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sarah Goslee
>> http://www.functionaldiversity.org
>>
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Ista Zahn
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