README.md

In joshmire/officerWinTools: Functions to compliment 'officer' R package using Microsoft Office in a Windows environment

officerWinTools R package

THIS PACKAGE REQUIRES A WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM AND MICROSOFT OFFICE.

The functions in the package run VBScript in Command Prompt.

The package includes functions for exporting Microsoft Word documents (.docx) and PowerPoint presentations (.pptx) as Portable Document Format (.pdf) files and a function for updating the tables of contents of a Microsoft Word document.

Functions to compliment officer R package using Microsoft Office in a Windows environment

## Installation The package is currently only available on GitHub: r devtools::install_github("joshmire/officerWinTools")

## Development Plan Version 1.0.0: Add insert_slide() function which will copy a range of slides from one PowerPoint presentation into another at a specified index or else at the end of the presentation. Also, if possible, add remove_last_page() function which will remove the last page of a Word document; will be useful for removing unintentionally added pages from using officer's body_end_section_landscape() function.

Version 2.0.0: Remove need for writing temp.vbs.

Version 3.0.0: Linux compatibility.

Archive: If Linux compatibility can be achieved, this package will be archieved and re-uploaded as officerTools and submitted to CRAN.

## Author's note The package is meant to be used along side the officer R package by David Gohel et al. The author of the package has no affiliation with the authors of officer.

joshmire/officerWinTools documentation built on July 5, 2023, 4:27 a.m.