odfWeave and MS Word

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I use odfWeave for purposes of reproducible research. I've discovered it generally works well on MS Office 2007 using .odt files generated in Word, but \Sexpr{} commands almost always fail. I suspect Word is treating the underlying XML in a strange way, but I'm curious if anyone has seen that problem and figured out how to make it work.

Thanks,

Bill

Fair request, Dirk. The next time I'm at that Windows machine (likely early next week), I'll generate something. — Bill, Mar 20 '11 at 03:36
I did a simple document that says "<>= library(arm) @ Lorem ipsum \Sexpr{mean(rnorm(50))} and more lorem ipsum. "What I get out is "Lorem ipsum mean(rnorm(50))} and more lorem ipsum." — Bill, Mar 21 '11 at 19:21
The problem is that, at least in some cases, Word puts XML markup around the \Sexpr. For example, content.xml includes `text:style-name="T19">\Sexpr{mean(rnorm(50))} — Bill, Mar 21 '11 at 19:31
That's not so easy, Dirk. If I create a memo, I end up with small text blocks in Word that break odfWeave. If I create a document from scratch, I don't, probably because my example documents are too simple. I found an O'Reilly article yesterday that pointed out a similar problem with Word and odt, but I can't find it. Their solution involved finding a way to configure Word to not issue certain page breaks on certain styles. — Bill, Mar 22 '11 at 20:48
Now I find it: [link](http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/05/is-sp2-no-good-or-is-odf-no-go.html). I don't think it directly applies, but the solution (tear apart the odt file and search for ways to get Word to stop breaking the Sexpr{} tag apart) seems promising. It also seems like a good way to lose a lot of time. Any ideas? — Bill, Mar 22 '11 at 20:51

daroczig · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-23T13:51:04.610

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My not use odfCat? E.g.:

> odfCat(mean(runif(100)))
<text:p text:style-name="ArialNormal">0.4411</text:p>

Also see this post, might be related. Good luck anyway!

edited Mar 23 '11 at 13:51

answered Mar 23 '11 at 13:27

daroczig

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Thanks! odfCat worked, although it's not quite the inline code of \Sexpr. Now I have to read up on how to format the results of code chunks. :-) If anyone knows how to keep Word from breaking up \Sexpr expressions, I'm still interested, but this certainly suffices. – Bill Mar 24 '11 at 23:38

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 26 '16 at 15:53

I've had the same problem. And I have found (by examining content.xml inside the .odt) that often LibreOffice will insert various inline formatting markup inside \Sexpr{...}, thereby preventing odfWeave() from working.

The solution to that is simply to mark the \Sexpr{...} (or the entire paragraph, or the entire document) inside LibreOffice Writer and click on "Clear direct formatting". I've never had an \Sexpr{...} that didn't work after doing this!

odfWeave and MS Word

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