[R] Running odfWeave on its own examples.odt

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 12-08-10 7:55 AM, John C Nash wrote:
> I'm trying to see if I can help some Windows users, but in WinXP and Win7 virtual machines
> and in a Win 7-64 real environment, after extracting the odfWeave examples.odt from the
> package and putting it in my working directory ("My Documents") where R can see and unpack
> it, I get "unable to convert 'examples.odt' to the current locale". I've tried some
> searches about UTF8 on Windows, which gave discouraging answers, and also the Sweave
> manual suggestions of different options(), e.g., I tried the suggestions regarding
> useFancyQuotes but without success.
>
> Things work fine (of course!) in Linux of different flavours, so I suspect this is a
> general Win issue, and I'm hopeful there is a simple workaround.
>
> The reproducible code is to source("tester.R") from R prompt or else
>
> Rscript tester.R
>
> where tester.R contains
>
>    library(odfWeave)
>    test<-odfWeave("examples.odt", "ex1out.odt")
>
> and this gives the same message "unable to convert examples.odt in the current locale".
>
> For information, changing the file to "simple.odt" does work, at least on one of my systems.

I just tried that in WinXP 32 bit, and it ran without problem.  This was 
in R-patched, with odfWeave 0.8.1.

Which versions were you using?

Duncan Murdoch

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