[R] Errors when trying to open odfWeave documents

[Max Kuhn]

Can you send the rest of the sessionInfo() results? I'd like to see your locale.

Thanks,

Max

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Paul <paul at paulhurley.co.uk> wrote:
> Max Kuhn wrote:
>
> I tried with this:
>
>  > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
> i386-pc-mingw32
> <snip>
>
> I didn't have any issues with the testcases.odt and examples.odt files.
>
> :-/
>
>
> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Dieter Menne
> <dieter.menne at menne-biomed.de> wrote:
>
>
> Paul Hurley wrote:
>
>
> Is there a known problem with odfWeave on Windows?  I've seen some
> messages on R-help from a year or two back where people couldn't install
> the XML package, but XML installed fine on my Windows box (it was more
> tricky on Kubuntu, but worked in the end).
>
>
>
> There was a problem with XML and odfWeave on Windows, probably you read one
> of my posts. I normally use LateX, but I tried odfWeave and the examples
> that failed at that time today with odfWeave_0.7.11 XML_2.8-1 , and it
> worked.
>
> It would be helpful if you could prune your text to the smallest size that
> shows the effect, and post it again; best put it on some web site for
> download, since most attachments are not permitted on this list.
>
>
> I've tried again, and still get the error.  I've posted the console output
> and my input and output odt files on my websit, along with where OpenOffice
> reports an error.
>
> Console Output:
> www.paulhurley.co.uk/images/stories/R/simplerverbose_console_output.txt
>
> formatting Example File Output (Error at 1293,124)
> www.paulhurley.co.uk/images/stories/R/formattingOut.odt
>
> Simpler Input (odt file with one sexpr only)
> www.paulhurley.co.uk/images/stories/R/simpler.odt
> Simpler Output (error at 68,124)
> www.paulhurley.co.uk/images/stories/R/simplerOut.odt
>
> Simplest Input (odt file with no R at all)
> www.paulhurley.co.uk/images/stories/R/simplest.odt
> Simplest Output (error at 68,124)
> www.paulhurley.co.uk/images/stories/R/simplestOut.odt
>
> In each file the line that seems to be a problem is like this
>     <text:list-level-style-bullet text:level="1"
> text:style-name="Bullet_20_Symbols" style:num-suffix="."
> text:bullet-char="�<U+009C><U+0094>" >
>
> I assume the question mark is the problem, but don't know what causes the
> question mark
>
> I have also tried setting my R installation to a US locale instead of UK (as
> Max reports his works, and the only difference is the locale) but the US
> locale still produces files with this error.
>
> I also checked that odfWeave seems to be using the zip.exe from the RTools
> set.  This is v2.32 by Info-Zip.  I tried telling odfWeave to use WinZip but
> I get the same issues. (and have no reason to blame zip).
>
> Sorry about the rambling post, but I don't have a clue what to try next.
>
> Regards
>
> Paul.
>



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Max