[R] reading in MS Word files

[Liviu Andronic]

Hello,

On 8/17/09, Mark Kimpel <mwkimpel at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am familiar with packages that read and write Excel files on both Windows
>  and Linux platforms.
>
>  Do any packages provide similar functionality for MS Word files? I have a
>  lot of text processing to do and the text is embedded in ~200 different Word
>  files (.doc format Office 2003). All I need to do is read, not write.
>
Perhaps export to .txt or .html via OpenOffice and then read and process in R?
Liviu