Thanks guys, as I wanted to do a little preprocessing before importing into
tm (the files have all sorts of stuff in them that I don't need), I used a
"system" to invoke Abiword and do the batch conversions. Mark
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On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Ingo Feinerer <feinerer@logic.at> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> Ingo Feinerer
> Vienna University of Technology
> http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/staff/feinerer
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