How to Scrape Word Documents with R

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Today we discuss an awesome skill for automating data collection from word documents:

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Here’s a common situation, you’re company has LOTS OF WORD FILES.

They contain tables of information that look like this:

Word Tables


Thinking like a programmer, you can extract this data using officer:


With a little bit of data wrangling with the tidyverse, you’ve got your table extracted & formatted:


Then you use ggplot2 to make a sweet plot:


Whoa – Look at 201! Getting a high “Activity Ratio” – Ratio of Lessons completed to Number of Students Enrolled:


You’ve just automated extracting word tables in R. BOOM! ????????????


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