PPT.Open: Open an existing PowerPoint presentation
In R2PPT: Simple R Interface to Microsoft PowerPoint using RDCOMClient

PPT.Open

R Documentation

Open an existing PowerPoint presentation

Description

Opens an existing PowerPoint presentation.

Usage

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

Arguments

`file`	Required filename giving the full file path to existing PowerPoint presentation. See example.
`method`	Choice of underlying COM technology method to implement R2PPT. Legacy function input, always uses RDCOMClient now.

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 wayne.w.jones@shell.com

References

See https://github.com/omegahat/RDCOMClient for more details on RDCOMClient and https://github.com/waynegitshell/R2PPT/ for R2PPT source code.

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 April 26, 2022, 5:08 p.m.