Extract all tables from a Word document — docx_extract_all_tbls • docxtractr

Extract all tables from a Word document

docx_extract_all_tbls(docx, guess_header = TRUE, preserve = FALSE, trim = TRUE)

Arguments

docx: docx object read with read_docx
guess_header: should the function make a guess as to the existence of a header in a table? (Default: TRUE)
preserve: preserve line breaks within a cell? Default: `FALSE`. NOTE: This overrides `trim`.
trim: trim leading/trailing whitespace (if any) in cells? (default: TRUE)

Value

list of data.frames or an empty list if no tables exist in docx

See also

assign_colnames, docx_extract_tbl

Examples

# a "real" Word doc

real_world <- read_docx(system.file("examples/realworld.docx", package="docxtractr"))
docx_tbl_count(real_world)
#> [1] 8

# get all the tables
tbls <- docx_extract_all_tbls(real_world)