Is it possible to import PowerPoint files into R?
I saw that you can use the ReporteRs package to create and manipulate powerpoint files, but I couldnt find anything on importing them.
I was hoping that I could load a pptx into an object like.
pptx1<-read.ppt(file1)
pptx2<-read.ppt(file2)
and then merge them into one file
pptx1<-addslide(pptx2,..)
Background: I would like to create a reporting tool based on slides from many different powerpoint files and since I am very bad at VBA, I was hoping that R could be a good alternative.
maybe too late but package officer can import data from pptx or docx file in a tidy format:
example_pptx <- system.file(package = "officer", "doc_examples/example.pptx")
doc <- read_pptx(example_pptx)
content <- pptx_summary(doc)
content
# A tibble: 29 x 9
text id content_type slide_id row_id cell_id col_span
<chr> <chr> <chr> <int> <int> <int> <dbl>
1 Title 12 paragraph 1 NA NA NA
2 A table 13 paragraph 1 NA NA NA
3 and some text 13 paragraph 1 NA NA NA
4 and some list (1) 13 paragraph 1 NA NA NA
5 and some list (2) 13 paragraph 1 NA NA NA
6 Header 1 18 table cell 1 1 1 1
7 Header 2 18 table cell 1 1 2 1
8 Header 3 18 table cell 1 1 3 1
9 A 18 table cell 1 2 1 1
10 12.23 18 table cell 1 2 2 1
# ... with 19 more rows, and 2 more variables: row_span <dbl>,
# media_file <chr>
