Feature request: adding a possibility to read comments

[adamryczkowski]

Comment field is a great last-resort way to put an extra dimension of informations into a matrix (e.g. matrix of analysis to do).

At the moment comments are concatenated for string fields, and ignored in numeric fields, because they are stored in the text:p XML tag just as string contents.

I think about a flag to the read.ods (or a separate function) that instead of reading the field itself, it only parses office:annotation XML tag, and expects to find there only string.

I think it shouldn't be too much problem. And I will gladly help you, if you tell me what to do. I know how to write R packages, but I never have programmed XML parsing before (although I know JSON and YAML).