[R] Running odfWeave on its own examples.odt

[John C Nash]

WinXP says

OS reports request to set locale to "en_US.UTF-8" cannot be honored.

Sigh.

JN

On 08/10/2012 11:40 AM, Frans Marcelissen wrote:
> Hi,
> I had the same problem unde linux. My friend Albert Jan Roskam knew the
> solution: add
>   Sys.setlocale(category = "LC_ALL", locale = "en_US.UTF-8")
> I suppose this also works under windows.
> Frans
> 
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
> Namens John C Nash
> Verzonden: vrijdag 10 augustus 2012 15:16
> Aan: Duncan Murdoch
> CC: r-help at r-project.org
> Onderwerp: Re: [R] Running odfWeave on its own examples.odt
> 
> 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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