Running odfWeave on its own examples.odt

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

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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