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odfWeave is an R-package that is used for making dynamic reports by Sweave processing of Open Document Format (ODF) files. For anyone new to report generation and lacking knowledge of markup languages this might be a good starting point or even a true alternative to sweave / LATEX and others.Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.
Now, anyone who recently tried to install the required zipping program for odfWeave might have noticed that there are currently no info-zip executables available (zip and unzip by info-zip software are suggested in the odfWeave manual). There are several other free zipping programs – but if you use these the default syntax for odfWeave changes. Looking into the internals it is revealed that the OS command specified for running the zipping program has to be adapted. There are some postings on the R-help mailing list concerning these topic, but none of them worked for me. After some trial and error I managed to get around this problem by using 7-zip with an adapted syntax and will share this here:
# write an in-file and save it to a folder:
dir()
[1] "Example_1_in.odt"
# testing the :
system("\"C:\\Program Files\\7-Zip\\7z.exe\" t -tzip Example_1_in.odt")
7-Zip 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18
Processing archive: Example_1_in.odt
Testing mimetype
Testing Configurations2\statusbar
Testing Configurations2\accelerator\current.xml
Testing Configurations2\floater
Testing Configurations2\popupmenu
Testing Configurations2\progressbar
Testing Configurations2\menubar
Testing Configurations2\toolbar
Testing Configurations2\images\Bitmaps
Testing content.xml
Testing manifest.rdf
Testing styles.xml
Testing meta.xml
Testing Thumbnails\thumbnail.png
Testing settings.xml
Testing META-INF\manifest.xml
Everything is Ok
Folders: 7
Files: 9
Size: 30139
Compressed: 9572
# setting up cmd prompt:
library(odfWeave)
ctrl <- odfWeaveControl(zipCmd =
c("\"C:\\Program Files\\7-Zip\\7z.exe\" a $$file$$",
"\"C:\\Program Files\\7-Zip\\7z.exe\" x -tzip $$file$$"))
# running:
odfWeave("Example_1_in.odt", "Example_1_out.odt", control = ctrl)
Copying Example_1_in.odt
Setting wd to C:\Users\Kay\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpghYef5/odfWeave2223195249
Unzipping ODF file using "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" x -tzip "Example_1_in.odt"
7-Zip 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18
Processing archive: Example_1_in.odt
Extracting mimetype
Extracting Configurations2\statusbar
Extracting Configurations2\accelerator\current.xml
Extracting Configurations2\floater
Extracting Configurations2\popupmenu
Extracting Configurations2\progressbar
Extracting Configurations2\menubar
Extracting Configurations2\toolbar
Extracting Configurations2\images\Bitmaps
Extracting content.xml
Extracting manifest.rdf
Extracting styles.xml
Extracting meta.xml
Extracting Thumbnails\thumbnail.png
Extracting settings.xml
Extracting META-INF\manifest.xml
Everything is Ok
Folders: 7
Files: 9
Size: 30139
Compressed: 9572
Removing Example_1_in.odt
Creating a Pictures directory
Pre-processing the contents
Sweaving content.Rnw
Writing to file content_1.xml
Processing code chunks ...
'content_1.xml' has been Sweaved
Removing content.xml
Post-processing the contents
Removing content.Rnw
Removing styles.xml
Renaming styles_2.xml to styles.xml
Removing manifest.xml
Renaming manifest_2.xml to manifest.xml
Removing extra files
Packaging file using "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a "Example_1_in.odt"
7-Zip 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18
Scanning
Creating archive Example_1_in.odt
Compressing Configurations2\accelerator\current.xml
Compressing content.xml
Compressing manifest.rdf
Compressing META-INF\manifest.xml
Compressing meta.xml
Compressing mimetype
Compressing settings.xml
Compressing styles.xml
Compressing Thumbnails\thumbnail.png
Everything is Ok
Copying Example_1_in.odt
Resetting wd
Removing C:\Users\Kay\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpghYef5/odfWeave2223195249
Done
# see the result:
dir()
[1] "Example_1_in.odt" "Example_1_out.odt"
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