fortify_location.location_label more than a row have been selected

[john-harrold]

I am trying to help a friend customize a corporate PowerPoint template to use with officer. When I use annotate_base:

library(officer)
annotate_base(path        = "broken_example.pptx")

I will email the broken_example.pptx file separately. I get the following error and traceback()

Error: `x` must be a string of length 1
In addition: Warning message:
In fortify_location.location_label(location, doc = x) :
  more than a row have been selected
> traceback()
10: stop("`x` must be a string of length 1", call. = FALSE)
9: as_xml_document.character(xml_elt)
8: as_xml_document(xml_elt)
7: ph_with.character(x = ppt, value = textstr, location = ph_location_label(type = lp$type[pidx], 
       ph_label = lp$ph_label[pidx]))
6: ph_with(x = ppt, value = textstr, location = ph_location_label(type = lp$type[pidx], 
       ph_label = lp$ph_label[pidx]))
5: annotate_base(path = "broken_example.pptx") at reprex.R#3
4: eval(ei, envir)
3: eval(ei, envir)
2: withVisible(eval(ei, envir))
1: source("reprex.R")

Output from sessionInfo()

R version 3.6.3 (2020-02-29)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Catalina 10.15.6

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] officer_0.3.18

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.6.3 R6_2.5.0       tools_3.6.3    uuid_0.1-4     xml2_1.3.2    
[6] zip_2.1.1 

[davidgohel]

Hi @john-harrold

This is because you have a duplicated label in one placeholder. I have just updated the package so that you get an error and a clear message about which label is duplicated. When annotate_base is now using fortify_location.location_label() and it wants unique labels to be sure it writes in the correct placeholder.

Let me know if helps

[john-harrold]

I thought it was something like that. Whenever I duplicated one of those elements in the slide master it wasn't assigning it a new place holder. I've never experienced that before. Thanks.

[github-actions]

This old thread has been automatically locked. If you think you have found something related to this, please open a new issue and link to this old issue if necessary.