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-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] Namens John C Nash Verzonden: vrijdag 10 augustus 2012 15:16 Aan: Duncan Murdoch CC: r-help@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 >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
