In hrbrmstr/msgxtractr: Read Outlook '.msg' Files

msgxtractr : Read Outlook '.msg' Files

'Microsoft' 'Outlook' messages can be saved in '.msg' files. Tools are provided that enable extraction of metadata, envelope, headers, body and attachments from these files.

The following functions are implemented:

read_msg: Read in an Outlook '.msg' file
save_attachments: Save all attachments from a 'msg' object
tidy_msg: Turn a 'msg' object into a 'tibble'

Installation

devtools::install_github("hrbrmstr/msgxtractr")

options(width=120)

Usage

library(msgxtractr)

# current version
packageVersion("msgxtractr")

str(msg1 <- read_msg(system.file("extdata/unicode.msg", package="msgxtractr")))

print(msg1)

str(msg2 <- read_msg(system.file("extdata/TestMessage-ansi.msg", package="msgxtractr")))

str(msg3 <- read_msg(system.file("extdata/TestMessage-default.msg", package="msgxtractr")))

str(msg4 <- read_msg(system.file("extdata/TestMessage-unicode.msg", package="msgxtractr")))

str(tidy_msg(msg1), 2)
str(tidy_msg(msg2), 2)
str(tidy_msg(msg3), 2)
str(tidy_msg(msg4), 2)