wdGet: Gets a handle to Word (using RDCOMClient).

In R2wd: Write MS-Word documents from R

Description

wdGet checks first if Word is already running. If this is not the case, it will start Word, add a document and then return the handle to the Word application. If Word is already running and has an active document, it will just return the handle.

Usage

wdGet(filename = NULL, path = "", method="rcom",visible = TRUE)

Arguments

filename	the filename of an existing word document (if null, make a new one)
path	the path to an existing word document
method	the COM client. Either "rcom" (default) or "RDCOMClient"
visible	whether the Word application should be visible.

Value

a handle to the COM object refering to the Word application.

Author(s)

Christian Ritter

Examples

## Not run: 
wdGet()
wdTitle("R2wd, a package to write Word documents from R")

## End(Not run)

R2wd documentation built on May 2, 2019, 8:54 a.m.