R create .docx file ?

The OP clearly hasn't followed the excellent documentation... this is not a maintainer problem. It is the act of printing the completed object that puts a file on disk.

However, the package author recommends in the README that help be requested from stackoverflow, as the mailing list Posting Guidelines do warn that contributed packages are not technically on topic in R-help. (Simply from a practicality standpoint... there are thousands of them, each with potentially voluminous details to distract from the R language itself.)

On April 8, 2020 10:08:09 AM PDT, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com> wrote:

But the OP explicitly notes that the read_docx package does *not* write
files and asks whether there are *other* packages or functions that
provide
that functionality. It still seems to me that the ReporteR maintainer
might
be the best place to go for that info, although there is certainly no
assurance that he can provide it.

Bert

On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 9:56 AM Jeff Newmiller
<jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>
wrote:

But before hassling the maintainer the OP should read the package
vignettes and run some examples... read_docx does not write to any

files,

so complaining that it doesn't will be fruitless.

On April 8, 2020 9:31:41 AM PDT, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com>
wrote:

This sounds like the sort of specialized question that should be
directed
to the maintainer (?maintainer) rather than to a general Help list

such

as
this.

Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming

along

and
sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )


On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 9:23 AM A Biologist

<jeremyclarkbio at gmail.com>

wrote:

Dear All,

Mac Catalina - R 3.6.3 - all up-to-date packages.
I would like to re-create the functionality which was found in the

package

{ReporteRs} by creating a .docx file in a folder on my computer

from

within

R - which can subsequently be used by the {officer} function

read_docx.

The function read_docx on my system does NOT create a new

document,

and

neither does the following code:
new.word.doc=function(){ report = read_docx(path ..name..

".docx"))

return(report) }
doc=new.word.doc()

I can use {base} file.create to create a file with an extension

.docx

- but

apparently this is not a .docx file - and read_docx can't read it.
Is there another R package or function which I can use in order to

create

(and then close the link to R so that it can be used by another

package) a

.docx file ?

Many thanks in advance.

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