[R] R create .docx file ?

[Jeff Newmiller]

Rmarkdown is my first choice as well... but the options available there for controlling PDF output via LaTeX macros are incredibly powerful, while the options available for controlling Word output from Rmarkdown are extremely limited by comparison. ReporteRs and officeR provide considerably more fine-grained control over Word formatting and layout than Rmarkdown supports, so for meshing R output into an existing Word-based workflow without lots of manual tweaking there is no comparison.

On April 8, 2020 10:12:36 PM PDT, cpolwart using chemo.org.uk wrote:
>DocX is quite a complex file..it's actually a zip file which contains
>an XML file describing the text and sub folders with other content such
>as images.
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>The description of need is a little vague - but may be the way it is
>described. Rmarkdown For instance can generate output to word. 
>ODFweave (now discontinued I think) can output to odx which can be
>opened in word. Although it starts with a odx file and generated a new
>version of it.
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>I use Rmarkdown to generate reports (mine are PDF) and if someone said
>could I do a word document report I'd start with markdown...
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>On 8 Apr 2020 18:08, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 using gmail.com> wrote:
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>But the OP explicitly notes that the read_docx package does *not* write
>
>files and asks whether there are *other* packages or functions that
>provide 
>that functionality. It still seems to me that the ReporteR maintainer
>might 
>be the best place to go for that info, although there is certainly no 
>assurance that he can provide it. 
>
>Bert 
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>On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 9:56 AM Jeff Newmiller
><jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us> 
>wrote: 
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>> But before hassling the maintainer the OP should read the package 
>> vignettes and run some examples... read_docx does not write to any
>files, 
>> so complaining that it doesn't will be fruitless. 
>> 
>> On April 8, 2020 9:31:41 AM PDT, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 using gmail.com>
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>> wrote: 
>> >This sounds like the sort of specialized question that should be 
>> >directed 
>> >to the maintainer (?maintainer) rather than to a general Help list
>such 
>> >as 
>> >this. 
>> > 
>> >Bert Gunter 
>> > 
>> >"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming
>along 
>> >and 
>> >sticking things into it." 
>> >-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) 
>> > 
>> > 
>> >On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 9:23 AM A Biologist
><jeremyclarkbio using gmail.com> 
>> >wrote: 
>> > 
>> >> Dear All, 
>> >> 
>> >> Mac Catalina - R 3.6.3 - all up-to-date packages. 
>> >> I would like to re-create the functionality which was found in the
>
>> >package 
>> >> {ReporteRs} by creating a .docx file in a folder on my computer
>from 
>> >within 
>> >> R - which can subsequently be used by the {officer} function 
>> >read_docx. 
>> >> The function read_docx on my system does NOT create a new
>document, 
>> >and 
>> >> neither does the following code: 
>> >> new.word.doc=function(){ report = read_docx(path ..name..
>".docx")) 
>> >> return(report) } 
>> >> doc=new.word.doc() 
>> >> 
>> >> I can use {base} file.create to create a file with an extension
>.docx 
>> >- but 
>> >> apparently this is not a .docx file - and read_docx can't read it.
>
>> >> Is there another R package or function which I can use in order to
>
>> >create 
>> >> (and then close the link to R so that it can be used by another 
>> >package) a 
>> >> .docx file ? 
>> >> 
>> >> Many thanks in advance. 
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