Paul, That line defines the bullet character. I don't think that you'll be missing much by excluding it.
I think that to avoid these issues, you should use a utf-8 locale. The one that I get in my sessions is: locale: [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 I'm sure that there are UK locales that would work. xml tends to be defined in terms of utf8 character sets (at least I see those characters a lot in xml files), so this might be a good idea for you to do. How to do it is beyond me. Max On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Paul <p...@paulhurley.co.uk> wrote: > Max Kuhn wrote: >> >> Can you send the rest of the sessionInfo() results? I'd like to see your >> locale. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Max >> >> >> > > Hi Max, > > I've put the locale info below. I wanted to let you know that I tried some > things again today, starting from scratch, and found that if I just ran the > odfWeave command, my files were readable, but after I ran the lines from the > formatting.R file they gave the error. > > I eventually tracked the problem down to the line ; > basicStyles$wideBullet$bulletChar="\342\234\224" > causes the outputs to give the error. If I comment it out everything works > fine. I assume that this is a problem with the fonts available on my system > ? That if the symbol referenced by \342\234\224 isn't available then the > file ends badly ? > > Let me know if you have any other ideas, but otherwise, thanks hugely for > the odfWeave package, it's probably saved R from not being used at all at my > work (top ten Pharma). > > Here's the locale info, Regards, Paul. > >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14) > i386-pc-mingw32 > > locale: > [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United > Kingdom.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252 > [4] LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=English_United > Kingdom.1252 > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > other attached packages: > [1] odfWeave_0.7.11 XML_2.8-1 lattice_0.18-3 > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] grid_2.10.1 tools_2.10.1 >> Sys.getlocale() > [1] "LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United > Kingdom.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United > Kingdom.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252" > > -- Max ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.