Martin,

Look at ROOo

on rcom.univie.ac.at

It is near the bottom of the Download page.

Rich


On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Martin Rittner <kmr@thegeologician.net>wrote:

> I would like to open OpenOffice (LibreOffice) .ods files in R. I've tried
> the ROpenOffice package from omegahat, but unfortunately, the read.ods()
> function attempts to use the values of the first column in a worksheet as
> row names, and thus does not allow duplicates in there (which, even more
> unfortunately, occur in my files). Also, the function does not allow to
> forward any other parameters to the called functions, like e.g.
> row.names=FALSE.
> Another option read.ods() does not offer is choice of the worksheet(s) to
> open, but that's a minor issue for me.
>
> Now, I could alter the files to fit the function. I could alter the
> function itself. But before I do any of that, I wanted to ask if someone has
> a better idea, another approach to ods-files altogether, maybe?
>
> Thanks, Martin
>
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