Retrieve docx footnotes with officer package

Asked Mar 15 '23 at 11:20

Active Mar 15 '23 at 12:18

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I have read a docx file into R using officer package. Here is the code I used:

library(officer)
files = list.files()
doc <- read_docx(files[1])
content = docx_summary(doc)

The resulting dataframe contains all paragraphs, but not the text in the footnotes. Is there any way to retrieve that, too?

edited Mar 15 '23 at 12:18

zephryl

asked Mar 15 '23 at 11:20

LocusClassicus

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Would something like `xml_text(xml_find_all(doc$footnotes$get(), "*"))` meet your needs? – Z.Lin Mar 19 '23 at 08:57
Absolutely! Thanks so much for your help. – LocusClassicus Mar 20 '23 at 16:39
And what exactly "*" ` in xml_find_all(doc$footnotes$get(), "*"` means? I understand that doc$footnotes$get() retrieves a series of xml nodes, but why * ? – LocusClassicus Mar 20 '23 at 16:47

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