[R] Sweave and tth

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

Kuhn, Max wrote:
> Dr. Harrell,
> 
>> I tried odfWeave to create an OpenOffice file and found that it 
>> exhausted the memory of my large linux machine and took a long time to
> 
>> run. 
> 
> Do you have any details about the problem that you encountered? A bug
> that someone else had pointed out might be the culprit. I have the
> default image format as png, but since a lot of linux systems don't have
> that device automatically available to them, I have a switch for the
> device in odfWeaveControl:
> 
>  plotDevice = ifelse(.Platform$OS.type == "windows", "png", "bitmap"),
> 
> The bitmap device units are in inches and the bmp device is in pixels.
> The bug is the default image size if 480 inches (whoops).
> 
> Can you try using:
> 
>   odfWeaveControl(
>    plotHeight = 5,
>    plotWidth = 5,
>    dispHeight = 5,
>    dispWidth = 5)
> 
> in your odfWeave call and let me know if this was the issue? I was able
> to reproduce the error on our linux systems and this fix worked (strange
> that the package passes R CMD check though).

Max,

I should have contacted you first - sorry about that.  png is working 
fine on my debian linux system, so I just ran

library(odfWeave)
odfWeave('/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/odfWeave/examples/examples.odt', 

   '/tmp/out.odt',
   control=
    odfWeaveControl(plotHeight = 5,plotWidth = 5,dispHeight = 
5,dispWidth = 5))

and it ran extremely fast, creating out.odt that loaded extremely fast 
into OpenOffice writer, unlike the first out.odt I had tried.

If you develop a way to include high-resolution graphics that will be 
even better.

I have updated http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/SweaveConvert accordingly.

> 
> If this works, Section 7 of the odfWeave manual lists two command line
> tools (not included in my package) that can do the conversion from odt
> to Word (or other formats)

Excellent

Thanks!
Frank

> 
>> I really appreciate Max Kuhn's efforts with odfWeave and hope to keep
> up 
>> with its development.
> 
> No problem. I'll be releasing a bug fix version to solve the device
> units issue. Also, others have reported problems with locales. I believe
> I have a fix for this issue too.
> 
>> Thanks.
>> -- 
>> Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
>>                       Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt
> University