R help - Aug 2012 - Running odfWeave on its own examples.odt

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.

John Nash

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
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