officer is an R package for manipulating Word (.docx) and PowerPoint (*.pptx) documents.
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How to add content to Power Point slides programmatically using Officer?
I am creating a Power Point presentation using Officer with tables created programmatically. The data varies all the time so my goal is to do it using a for loop or something else.
In the example below I have 3 flextable objects stored in a list. In…

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R mschart turn off line smoothing
I'm using mschart version 0.2.6 to draw line charts in R for powerpoint. I get smoothed lines by default but don't want that. How do I turn it off?
I found the following feature request on github but it's closed and I'm not sure how it was…

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When using officedown changing from portait to landscape causes problems with page numbering
I have been using officeR and officedown a lot in the past months. These are great packages sparing me a lot of time and effort, since many of my collaborators want *.docx files.
However, I have one problem which can be reproduced using the bookdown…

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R officer: Is it possible to print slide as image (jpg, png or other formats)
I have a set of files all with 1 slide created with a custom template created with R officer package
Would like to print these individual slides as jpg or png. Current workflow is to print individual pptx files using the inbuilt print function and…

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`&` in URL becomes `&` when flextable is exported to powerpoint
I'm using flextable and officer to write tables to powerpoints that have hyperlinked cells. When a URL has an & in it, though, the & gets replaced with &. It still works in the flextable in the viewer of my RStudio window, but changes when I…

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Remove underline from hyperlinked cells in flextable in R
I'm using flextable and officer to write a table with hyperlinked cells to a powerpoint slide, but I can't figure out how to remove the underline in the URL. Here's my code:
library(officer)
library(flextable)
library(magrittr)
# Make the…

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Fit Flextable to slide size in PowerPoint with officer
I've made a flextable with various formatting, but when I add to the PowerPoint, the table is outside the slide size.
I'm not sure if I have to just go through and set the column & row sizes, or if there is something I should set up in my PowerPoint…

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R Reporters to Officer and migration
I have a lon script written with the Reporters package and I want to migrate it to officer, will I be able to know if there are sources which indicate the functions of each package?
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officer generated document use same uploaded image
how does shiny handle temporary files?
I have an app where the user uploads images (one by one) and then via officer (and flextable) a document is generated
compose(i=1,j=1, value = as_paragraph(as_image(col1,width = 3.46,height = 2.63)),part =…

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Why α symbol turns into after flextable and officer update?
As in the title: before the update exported .docx file contained α symbol - after the update exported .docx file displays . Does anyone know what could be the reason?

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How can I catch errors that occur when ggplot objects are evaluated within a pipe?
I'm producing daily powerpoint slidedecks from raw Covid case data, and today, we have no cases! Excellent, except it broke my reports :-(
I generate ggplots, and place them on powerpoint slides using officer. The ggplot errors only arise when it…

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Logo and text on same line Officer R
I need to place a logo on my document and have a text on the same line.
library(officer)
library(magrittr)
my_doc <- read_docx()
my_doc <- my_doc %>%
body_add_fpar(fpar(ftext(
paste0("Text"),
fp_text( font.size = 16)),
fp_p =…

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Compare Values Across Two Dataframes R
I am building a crime report in R and am comparing two separate dataframes, one from the current year and one from the previous year. The data structure is the same in both. Is there a way to color the values in a flextable based on the crimes that…

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How to center text without using a preexisting Word style using the officer package in R
I am struggling to find a way to center text in a Word document using the officer package in R.
I have to use a specific Word template so do not want to rely on the preexisting Word style = "centered".
Using fpar(ftext(...)) I am able to adjust many…

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Apply Conditional Text Modifications Through a List of FlexTables
I have a list of 32 flextables with 5 different columns. I want to apply the color and bold function to 2 separate columns, based on a condition.
My approach is as follows:
###Create a function that takes an input x (the flextable) and an input y…

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