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! -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Novice-Alert-odfWeave-help-tp4455481p4455481.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Step by step:
1. Create a new document in Open/LibreOffice
2. Copy/paste the following text into the document (as an example)
<<helloworld>>cat("Hello, world")
@
2. Save the file (e.g. "hello.odt")
3. Start R (if not already) shouldn't matter if its plain R/RStudio
4. Change working directory to the folder in which you odt-document resides
setwd("/path/to/your/file")
4. Load odfWeave
library(odfWeave)
5. odfWeave your document. All code-chunks are taken from your
document, executed in R and the output of the R-commands is inserted
into the resulting odt-document.
odfWeave("hello.odt", "hello_out.odt")
You can now open "hello_out.odt" (or whatever you named it) and see
the resulting output.
HTH,
Jan
metatarsals <sjcastedo at gmail.com> schreef:
> 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!
>
>
> --
> View this message in context:
>
http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Novice-Alert-odfWeave-help-tp4455481p4455481.html
> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
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> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
odfWeave is an R package.
First off, be sure it is installed. Use
install.packages("odfWeave")
to install it and then load it with the command
library(odfWeave)
General Intro
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/odfWeave/vignettes/odfWeave.pdf
Specific newbie tips.
http://datamining.togaware.com/survivor/Getting_Started0.html
I have not used it in a couple of years so I am not current and I used in under
Windows 7.
Currently it looks like odfWeave package is not available for R 2.14.0 at least
under Windows if I am reading the warning message correctly.
Good luck. It is a powerful tool
John Kane
Kingston ON Canada
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sjcastedo at gmail.com
> Sent: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 19:24:26 -0800 (PST)
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Novice Alert!: odfWeave help!
>
> 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!
>
>
> --
> View this message in context:
>
http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Novice-Alert-odfWeave-help-tp4455481p4455481.html
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