body_add_docx function

Add an external docx in a 'Word' document

Add content of a docx into an rdocx object.

The function is using a 'Microsoft Word' feature: when the document will be edited, the content of the file will be inserted in the main document.

This feature is unlikely to work as expected if the resulting document is edited by another software.

The file is added when the method print() that produces the final Word file is called, so don't remove file defined with src before.

body_add_docx(x, src, pos = "after")

Arguments

• x: an rdocx object
• src: docx filename, the path of the file must not contain any '&' and the basename must not contain any space.
• pos: where to add the new element relative to the cursor, one of "after", "before", "on".

Examples

file1 <- tempfile(fileext = ".docx")
file2 <- tempfile(fileext = ".docx")
file3 <- tempfile(fileext = ".docx")
x <- read_docx()
x <- body_add_par(x, "hello world 1", style = "Normal")
print(x, target = file1)

x <- read_docx()
x <- body_add_par(x, "hello world 2", style = "Normal")
print(x, target = file2)

x <- read_docx(path = file1)
x <- body_add_break(x)
x <- body_add_docx(x, src = file2)
print(x, target = file3)

See Also

Other functions for adding content: body_add_blocks(), body_add_break(), body_add_caption(), body_add_fpar(), body_add_gg(), body_add_img(), body_add_par(), body_add_plot(), body_add_table(), body_add_toc()