[R] reading in MS Word files

[Ingo Feinerer]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:00:07PM +0200, Mark Kimpel wrote:
> I am familiar with packages that read and write Excel files on both Windows
> and Linux platforms.
> 
> Do any packages provide similar functionality for MS Word files? I have a
> lot of text processing to do and the text is embedded in ~200 different Word
> files (.doc format Office 2003). All I need to do is read, not write.

See readDOC in package tm. E.g., something like

Corpus(DirSource("aDirectoryContainingTheWordFiles"), readerControl = list(reader = readDOC))

Note that you need antiword (http://www.winfield.demon.nl/) in your
path such that readDOC can use it.

Best regards, Ingo

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Ingo Feinerer
Vienna University of Technology
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