[R] Help request: Parsing docx files for key words and appending to a spreadsheet

Eric Berger er|cjberger @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Sat Dec 30 13:16:01 CET 2023


docx_summary(content)

You should read documentation e.g. ?docx_summary and check the examples
section

On Sat, Dec 30, 2023 at 2:12 PM Andy <phaedrusv using gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Eric
>
> Thanks for that. That seems to fix one problem (the lack of a separator),
> but introduces a new one when I complete the function Calum proposed:
> Error in docx_summary() : argument "x" is missing, with no default
>
> The whole code so far looks like this:
>
>
> # Load libraries
> library(tcltk)
> library(tidyverse)
> library(officer)
>
> filepath <- setwd(tk_choose.dir())
>
> filename <- "Now they want us to charge our electric cars from litter
> bins.docx"
> #full_filename <- paste0(filepath, filename) # Calum's original suggestion
>
> full_filename <- paste(filepath, filename, sep="/") # Eric's proposed fix
>
> #lets double check the file does exist! # The rest here is Calum's
> suggestion
> if (!file.exists(full_filename)) {
>   message("File missing")
> } else {
>   content <- read_docx(full_filename)
>   docx_summary()
>   # this reads docx for the full filename and
>   # passes it ( |> command) to the next line
>   # which summarises it.
>   # the result is saved in a data frame object
>   # called content which we shall show some
>   # heading into from
>
>   head(content)
> }
>
>
> Running this, results in the error cited above.
>
> Thanks as always :-)
>
>
>
>
> On 30/12/2023 11:58, Eric Berger wrote:
>
> full_filename <- paste(filepath, filename,sep="/")
>
>
>

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