https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/iterate/ Recent content in Iterate on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Tue, 26 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/06/26/mail-merge/ Tue, 26 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/06/26/mail-merge/ Dawson’s Creek’s Dawson leaks tl;dr You have customer details. You want to send each person a personalised letter from a template. You want to mail merge, basically.1 This post shows how you can use R to iteratively produce separate Microsoft Word reports from a common template, each one with slightly different data. Here I use R Markdown and the {knitr} package to render a separate report about each episode of Dawson’s Creek (a classic use case!