Hello world,
I'm pretty new to computer code: for example, I consider it a small
victory that I (all by myself!) managed to ssh into the server at my
lab from home and copy a file onto my desktop. Be gentle. I have
primarily used R for running some pretty mid-level statistics
(creating distance matrices, manipulating graphs for pretty figures,
etc).

I'm working through Bolker's Ecological Models and Data in R (which is
a great book for ecologists/life sciences types who want to learn how
to just barely get by in R, with know previous knowledge of R code
presupposed). My advisor wants me to explore odfWeave to stream-line
my notes. This is important because I will inevitably be his TA in his
R stat course, and I will need to be proficient with the software. So
far I have been copy-pasting my codes into a word processor (both open
office and word) and inserting my plots after saving them.

I do not understand how to use odfWeave. The way it was explained to
me initially sounded like it was some kind of Open Office add-on I
could install and my chunks of code would be automatically translated.
Six hours of research later, I realize this is not the case, and that
I need outside help. I'm on a Mac OSx 10.7.3 Lion, I normally use
RStudios, but I have R and R64 and I operate at about, oh, let's say
the level of a 2- or 3-year-old does with language and walking.

So, what exactly does odfWeave do? Do I stick my chunks of code (I
know I need to use << to start and @ to end to bracket off the
sections of code) in the .odf document, then do the file.in/file.out
commands, which then reads the code and pops out a pretty little graph
to my specified parameters? Or do I use the file.in/file.out commands
to paste code I've created in R into an existing .odf doc?

Any baby steps or example code you could give me would warm my little heart.

If the first scenario (write the code into an .odf document, set off
as mentioned above, and then tell R to do stuff to it) is the
scenario, I'd be happy to send an example.

Thanks! I can offer a cute picture of a cat as payment, if desired!


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