Convert a docx-file (a protocol) to an (R)markdown file

This function is derived from the redoc::dedoc() function and uses pandoc to convert between docx and markdown. Several options are preset to end-up with a markdown document that is in syntax as close as possible to Rmarkdown files in RStudio. During conversion, graphics (e.g. png, jpg) will be extracted from the docx archive and placed in a folder ./media and named image1, image2, etcetera. Additionally, .emf files will be converted to .png.

Usage

convert_docx_to_rmd(
  from,
  to = sub("docx$", "Rmd", from),
  dir_media = ".",
  wrap = NA,
  overwrite = FALSE,
  verbose = FALSE,
  wd = getwd()
)

Arguments

from

The .docx file to convert. Can be given as an absolute or relative path.

to

The filename including path to write the resulting .Rmd file. The default is to use the same name and path as the .docx document.

dir_media

The directory to write the folder media with images to, relative to the folder where the .Rmd is written. Defaults to '.' (the path where the .Rmd file is written).

wrap

The width at which to wrap text. If NA (default), text is not wrapped.

overwrite

Whether or not to overwrite the to file if it already existed. Defaults to FALSE.

verbose

Whether to print pandoc progress text. Defaults to FALSE.

wd

Current working directory (used to handle relative paths).

Details

Metadata in the page headers and footers of the docx are ignored and will thus be lost during conversion. In case the header or footer did contain important metadata, it will need to be recovered manually. Usually header information will go inside a yaml section of an Rmarkdown.

See also

Other convert: add_captions()