https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/word/ Recent content in Word on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Wed, 21 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/06/21/wordup-tables/ Wed, 21 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/06/21/wordup-tables/ tl;dr I made a function that shouldn’t need to exist in an ideal world: it takes a copied Microsoft Word table and outputs a Markdown version (well, a Govspeak version). Govspeak when you’re spoken to I’ve written about three painful things recently: Forcing data scientists to expose their tools so we can all use and learn from them. ‘Rectangularising’ tables scraped out of a Word document via the {officer} package. 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!