[R] problem with odfWeave

[Ista Zahn]

Joel, I still don't see an example. I think you're making things more
difficult for yourself than you need to, but without an example I
don't know what exactly you're doing.

-Ista

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Joel GOMBIN <joel.gombin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> so to sum up, I'm making automated reports, in the form of tables. In each
> cell of the table is an expression like (e.g.) :
>
> \Sexpr{odfCat(round(summary(get(modele1))$coefficients[1,1],2))}
>
> For most cells, after I run odfWeave, the results are correctly put and
> formatted. But in some cells (always the same), the output.odt file has the
> original expression (e.g.
> \Sexpr{odfCat(round(summary(get(modele1))$coefficients[1,1],2))}) instead of
> the result of the evaluation of the expression.
>
> When I look at the content.xml code of the input file, I see that in these
> cells where the evaluation is not proprely run, I have something like :
>
> <text:p text:style-name="P4">
> \Sexpr{odfCat(round(summary(get(modele1))$coefficients[2,
> <text:soft-page-break/>
> 1],2))}
> </text:p>
>
> instead of the regular
>
> <text:p text:style-name="P4">
> \Sexpr{odfCat(round(summary(get(modele1))$coefficients[2,1],2))}
> </text:p>
>
> So my question is : how can I get rid of these <text:soft-page-break/> tags
> that appeared for no apparent reason ? Is there a way to configure
> OpenOffice Writer so that he won't put such tags ?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Joel
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Ista Zahn <istazahn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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>> >
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>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ista Zahn
>> Graduate student
>> University of Rochester
>> Department of Clinical and Social Psychology
>> http://yourpsyche.org
>
>



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Ista Zahn
Graduate student
University of Rochester
Department of Clinical and Social Psychology
http://yourpsyche.org