Sorry for the delayed response. An upgrade of the XML package has broken odfWeave; see this thread:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2011-May/278063.html That may be your issue. We're working on the problem now. I'll post to R-Packages when we have a working update. If you like, I can send you the eventual fixes if you would like to test them. Thanks, Max On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 3:35 PM, <rmail...@justemail.net> wrote: > I also have a problem using odfWeave on Windows XP with R > R2.11.1. odfWeave > fails, giving mysterious error messages. (Not quite the same as yours, but > similar. I sent the info to Max Kuhn privately, but did not get a response > after two tries.) My odfWeave reporting system worked fine prior to R2.12 and > then the same code that ran fine under R2.11.1 stopped working. Using the > very same machine and running the very same code under R2.11.1 it still runs > fine today. So, something is not quite right with odfWeave on Windows XP for > R > R2.11.1, and I don't know what it is. My "solution" is to keep R2.11.1 > around until it can be resolved. > > Eric > > > > ----- Original message ----- > From: "Cormac Long" <clong...@googlemail.com> > To: r-help@r-project.org > Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 10:45:06 +0100 > Subject: [R] issue with odfWeave running on Windows XP; question about > installing packages under Linux > > Good morning R community, > > I have two questions (and a comment): > 1) > A problem with odfWeave. I have an odf document > with a table that spans multiple pages. Each cell in the table is > populated using \sexpr{<R stuff>}. This worked fine on my > own machine (windows 7 box using any R2.x.y, for x>=11) and > on a colleagues machine (Windows XP box running R2.11.1). > However, on a third machine (Windows XP box running R2.12.0 > or R2.13.0), odfWeave fails with the following error: > Error in parse(text = cmd) : <text>:1:36: unexpected '>' > 1: GLOBAL_CONTAI<text:soft-page-break/> > A poke around in the unzipped odt file reveals the culprit: > \Sexpr{GLOBAL_CONTAI<text:soft-page-break/>NER$repDat$Dec[i]} > which should read > \Sexpr{GLOBAL_CONTAINER$repDat$Dec[i]} > > The page break coincides with where the table overruns from > one page to the next. > > Now, if this was a constant error across all machines, that > would be annoying, but ok. My questions are: > a) Can anyone think of a sensible suggestion why has this > happened only on one machine, and not on other machines? > b) Is there any way of handling such silent xml modifications > (apart from odfTable, which I have only just bumped into, or > extremely judicious choice of table construction, which is > tedious and unreliable)? > > 2) > When installing some packages on linux (notably RODBC and XML), > you need to ensure that you linux distro has extra header files installed. > This is a particular issue in Ubuntu. The question is: is there any way > that a package can check for necessary external header files and issue > suitable warnings? For example, if you try to install RODBC on Ubuntu > without first installing unixodbc-dev, the installation will fail with the > error: > configure: error: "ODBC headers sql.h and sqlext.h not found > which is useful, but not particularly suggestive of requiring unixodbc-dev > > > A further comment on odfWeave: odfWeave uses system calls to > zip and unzip when processing the odt documents. Would it not > be a good idea for the odfWeave package to check for the presence > of zip and unzip utilities and report accordingly when trying to install? > By default, Windows XP boxes do not have these utilities installed > (installing Rtools does away with this problem). > > > Many thanks in advance, > Dr. Cormac Long. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Max ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
