[R] Running odfWeave on its own examples.odt

[John C Nash]

My bad. Should have included sessionInfo(). Here it is for the two virtual machines -- 
rebooting is a pain!

Since Duncan found it "worked" for him, I suspect some configuration issue. I'm happy to 
off-list until it is resolved. I also see the locales, which are clearly NOT utf8, so 
maybe Cygwin let's me change them?

JN


WinXP: Professional, Version 2002, Service Pack 3
 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] grid      stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
[8] base

other attached packages:
[1] MASS_7.3-18    odfWeave_0.8.1 XML_3.9-4.1    lattice_0.20-6

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.15.1
 >

Win7: (Professional, Service Pack 1)
 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] odfWeave_0.8.1 XML_3.9-4.1    lattice_0.20-6

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_2.15.1





On 12-08-10 08:59 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> 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
>
>>
>> John Nash
>>
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