In Merck/r2rtf: Easily Create Production-Ready Rich Text Format (RTF) Table and Figure

knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE, collapse = TRUE)
library(r2rtf)

r2rtf:::rtf_convert_format(
  input = list.files("vignettes/rtf/", pattern = "*.rtf", full.names = TRUE),
  output_dir = "vignettes/html",
  format = "html"
)

Overview

r2rtf had an experimental internal function r2rtf:::rtf_convert_format to convert RTF format to PDF, DOCX, or HTML. This feature requires LibreOffice >= 7.1 and was only tested in a Linux environment.

By default, r2rtf:::rtf_convert_format convert RTF file to PDF format. The PDF file will be saved in the same folder with same file name by default.

In example below, ae_example.pdf will be created in the same folder.

r2rtf:::rtf_convert_format(input = "rtf/ae_example.rtf")

• Multiple files can be provided as input.

r2rtf:::rtf_convert_format(input = list.files("rtf", pattern = "*.rtf"))

• The format argument allow use to specify output format as pdf, docx, or html.

r2rtf:::rtf_convert_format(input = "rtf/ae_example.rtf", format = "html")

Limitations

There is one known limitation after RTF file convert to HTML files:

• table border issue.
• "dash", "small dash", "dot dash", and "dot dot" border type are not supported

knitr::include_graphics("pdf/border-type.pdf")

````{=html}

xfun::file_string("html/border-type.html")

````

Merck/r2rtf documentation built on April 18, 2024, 11:51 a.m.