Changes in version 2.06 write_ods and write_fods allow list of data frames Fix #56; and it is now the same as writexl::write_xlsx(). write_ods(list("some_car_data" = mtcars, "some_flower_data" = iris)) bug fixes - Fix #157 list_fods_sheets() and read_fods() cannot accept ~ as path - Fix #163 list_fods_sheets() can't guard non-fods XML disguised as fods Changes in version 2.05 Reverse the decision to deprecate ods_sheets See discussion #133 Changes in version 2.04 col_types can be character ("shorthand") or list fix #135 and the review by Dr Ruedni # Specifying col_types as shorthand, the third column as factor; other by guessing read_ods("starwars.ods", col_types = "??f") # Specifying col_types as list read_ods("starwars.ods", col_types = list(species = "f")) Changes in version 2.3.5 (2026-04-13) - Remove manual allocation of buffer to prevent stack-use-after-scope problem reported by BDR (see #288, ref #215) Changes in version 2.3.4 (2026-04-10) - Matches readxl parameters - Adds progress bar for reading functions - Rewritten C++ parts for large files - Implements #154 - Fix #224 "OutDec" option is ignored Changes in version 2.3.3 - Fix #213, prevent error when set.seed for write_ods() Changes in version 2.3.2 (2025-01-13) - Fix #207, trim off large or unused test files - Fix #209, require R >= 4.0.0 due to cpp11 - Fix #211, fix a bug (in minty) for parsing cells with only spaces Changes in version 2.3.1 (2024-11-05) - Undo #173, use cpp11 like 2.2.0 Bug fixes - Fix #190 a potential GC issue in the vendored cpp11 code, detected by rchk - Fix #203 documentation issues Changes in version 2.3.0 (2024-05-26) - Use minty instead of readr to reduce the number of dependencies - Fix #173, Use a modified vendored version of cpp11 to avoid the "non-API calls" Bug fixes - Fix #185 - trim_ws for colnames behaves the same as readxl::read_xlsx(). Changes in version 2.2.0 (2024-02-01) - Fix #151 - Now read_ods() and list_ods_sheets() can also be used to process flat ods files. read_fods() and list_fods_sheets() are still available, but not as the so-called "common interface." - Fix #154 - read_ods() and read_fods() have two arguments - trim_ws and n_max which are the same as the arguments of readxl::read_excel(). Changes in version 2.1.1 Bug fixes - Fix #170 - .name_repair is correctly passed. - Fix #180 - specify the minimum cpp11 version Changes in version 2.1.0 (2023-09-10) CRAN version Changes in version 2.0.7 append and update of write_ods in C++ Significant speed improvement; also xml2 is no longer a dependency. POTENTIALLY BREAKING: reading single-row / single-column (F)ODS and col_names / row_names Prior the previous stable release, <= 1.9.0, reading single-row / single-column with col_names = TRUE / row_names = TRUE produced errors. In v1.9.0 (and the stable version v2.0.0 on CRAN), reading single-row / single-column (F)ODS with col_names = TRUE / row_names = TRUE will override the two parameters and return a non-empty data frame. This behaviour is consistent with other data reading R functions (see #146) such as readxl::read_xlsx(), readr::read_csv(), data.table::fread(), and openxlsx::read.xlsx(). For these functions, either a empty or zero-row data.frame is returned. We changed this behaviour. The following will return a zero-row data.frame by default. read_ods(write_ods(mtcars[0,])) ## col_names is TRUE by default However, the previous behaviour is in the stable release and backward compatibility is needed. If you need that previous behaviour, please set the options("readODS.v200" = TRUE) options("readODS.v200" = TRUE) read_ods(write_ods(mtcars[0,])) ## col_names is TRUE by default Changes in version 2.0.3 Add support for writing flat ODS write_fods is available, fix #103 Changes in version 2.0.2 performance improvement for write_ods write_ods has been partially rewritten in C++ #140 Ensure R 3.6 compatibility To ensure UTF-8 everywhere, fix #107 Bump requirement to R>=3.6 Bug fixes - write empty sheet #142 Changes in version 2.0.1 Fix writing data time columns error #137 dttm column was incorrectly written with one more column. It's now fixed. Changes in version 2.0.0 (2023-08-10) BREAKING CHANGES: Changed write_ods(na_as_string) behaviour The default for na_as_string was getOption("write_ods_na", default = FALSE) in v1.8. The default now is FALSE, but it writes NA as blank cell (instead of the buggy behaviour of writing NA in the original type, which is rendered as 0 by LibreOffice for numeric types. see #79). This behaviour is compatible with the default of writexl::write_xlsx. The behaviour of na_as_string = TRUE is the same as in v1.8: writes NA as string. BREAKING CHANGES: Removed get_num_sheets_in_{f}ods() The descendant of getNrOfSheetsInODS() is not very useful. If you really need to have the similar function: length(list_ods_sheets("starwars.ods")) BREAKING CHANGES: Removed several obsolete parameters of write_ods() - overwrite: always TRUE - verbose: always FALSE BREAKING CHANGES: Limited size of sheets writable with write_ods() - Will now refuse to write sheets with size greater than 16384 x 1048576 (max sheet dimensions for Excel and LibreOffice Calc) BREAKING CHANGES: read_ods now outputs as tibble by default - Added as_tibble and .name_repair as arguments. If as_tibble is true, outputs as a tibble using tibble::as_tibble() passing on .name_repair (default being "unique"). By default as_tibble is set to TRUE. - Removed check_names argument. All name repairs are now dealt with using vctrs::vec_as_names(). This will significantly change the default names given to outputs. (Names in the style of check_names = TRUE can be obtained by setting .name_repair = minimal, although this is not advised) Defer the removal of ods_sheets to v3 There are many reverse dependencies using ods_sheets. Changes in version 1.9.0 - Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package. - Rewrote all reading functions in C++ for significant speed increase BREAKING CHANGES: Removed read.ods and ods_sheets These have been deprecated for several years. list_ods_sheets - Added include_external_data as an argument (FALSE by default). This hides stored data from external sources not normally accessible to the user. read_ods - Changed behaviour when only one row is read. The row now correctly appears as the top row in the dataframe, and a warning is given if column headers are requested that this would cause the output to be empty (Note: in this case column names are not assigned) - Changed behaviour when only one column is read. Previously gave an error. If row names are requested, gives a warning that this would cause the output to be empty, and does not assign names. - Sheets are now accepted as part of the range argument, e.g. Range = "Sheet2!A2:B7". If this and the sheets argument are given, this is preferred. - Merged cells now have their value places in the top-left cell. All other cells that would be covered by the merge are filled with NA. - Added as_tibble and .name_repair as arguments. If as_tibble is true, outputs as a tibble using tibble::as_tibble() passing on .name_repair (default being "check_unique"). read_fods - Reading (but not writing) flat ODS files is now supported using the functions read_fods(), list_fods_sheets(), get_num_sheets_in_fods(). These work the same way as their analogue ODS functions. The extension does not need to be fods, however they do need to conform to the OO specification. write_ods - Attempted to fix writing non UTF-8 strings to files. This still has some issues in versions of R < 4.2, however it should now correctly write most text within your current locale. See readme for more details.