PPT.Open: Open an existing PowerPoint presentation

In R2PPT: Simple R Interface to Microsoft PowerPoint using rcom or RDCOMClient.

Description

Opens an existing PowerPoint presentation.

Usage

PPT.Open(file=stop("filename must be specified"),method=c("rcom","RDCOMClient"))

Arguments

file	Required filename giving the full file path to existing PowerPoint presentation. See example.
method	Choice of underlying COM technology to open the PowerPoint presentation. Choice of either rcom or RDCOMClient. Defaults to rcom.

Value

ppt	Invisibly returns a list of COM objects.

Warning

You must save the returned list of COM objects initialised with PPT.Init to an R object. See the example.

Author(s)

Wayne Jones [e-mail]

References

See http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/rcom for more details on rcom and http://www.omegahat.org/RDCOMClient/ for more details on RDCOMClient.

See Also

PPT.Init,PPT.SaveAs,PPT.Close,PPT.AddTitleSlide,PPT.AddTextSlide,
PPT.AddTitleOnlySlide,PPT.Present,PPT.ApplyTemplate,PPT.AddGraphicstoSlide

Examples

## Not run: 
#Create and save a presentation

myPres<-PPT.Init(visible=FALSE)
myPres<-PPT.AddTitleSlide(myPres,title="Title Slide",subtitle="Subtitle here")
myPres<-PPT.AddTitleOnlySlide(myPres,title="Title Only",title.fontsize=40,title.font="Arial")
myPres<-PPT.AddTextSlide(myPres,title="Text Slide",text="Text1 \rText2 \rText3",text.font="Arial")
myPres<-PPT.SaveAs(myPres,file=paste(getwd(),"test R2PPT Pres.ppt",sep="/"))
myPres<-PPT.Close(myPres)
rm(myPres)

#Open the saved presentation and carry on...

myPres<-PPT.Open(file=paste(getwd(),"test R2PPT Pres.ppt",sep="/"))
myPres<-PPT.AddTitleOnlySlide(myPres,title="Carry on appending to existing PPT file!")


## End(Not run) 

R2PPT documentation built on May 2, 2019, 3:41 p.m.