read ODS files into R
ODS (Open Document Spreadsheets) files are basically a zip file with all the stuff in it.
The file contents.xml is a XML file containing all the numbers and formulas used in the ODS spreadsheets.
From the CRAN with
install.packages("readODS")
library(readODS)
From github with the devtools package
WARNING: THIS MAY BE UNSTABLE!
if(!require(devtools)){
install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)
}
detach("package:readODS")
remove.packages("readODS")
install_github(repo="readODS", username ="chainsawriot", ref="master")
library(readODS)
read_ods("table.ods", header = TRUE) ## return only the first sheet
read_ods("multisheet.ods", sheet = 2, formula_as_formula = TRUE) ## return the second sheet with formula read as formula
read.ods("multisheet.ods") ## for backward compatibility purpose, not recommended.
Various ods files generated by LibreOffice Calc and Google Sheets have been tested. The package has been tested on Debian 8.
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