readOds: Read the sheets in an Open Office workbook
In duncantl/ROpenOffice: Basic reading of Open Office spreadsheets and workbooks

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References See Also Examples

This function is a “quick” implementation of reading all of the spreadsheets within an Open Office workbook. It reads each sheet into a data frame and returns these as a list.

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read.ods(file, header = TRUE, simplify = TRUE,
          doc = xmlParse(zipArchive(file)[["content.xml"]]),
           stringsAsFactors = TRUE)

`file`	the name of the `.ods` file
`header`	a logical value indicating whether the first row is a
`simplify`	a logical value which is intended to allow the caller retrieve a data.frame object rather than a list containing one data.frame when there is only one worksheet in the workbook.
`doc`	the parsed XML document containing the content of the work book. This is a parameter to allow caller who are processing other aspects of the workbook to pass the already parsed XML document to this function, perhaps having modified it.
`stringsAsFactors`	a logical value controlling whether variables in the result data frame are converted to a factors if they are strings. This is passed to `as.data.frame`.

This uses the Rcompression package to access the files within the archive and then

If simplify is TRUE and the workbook contains a single work sheet, a data frame is returned; otherwise, a list in which each element is a data frame is returned.

Duncan Temple Lang

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xmlParse, getNodeSet