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Word to Rmd

This Rmd will download Word (docx) files from a Google Drive folder and convert to Rmds.

Download all the Word files

This will download the files from the folder and save to a folder called data.

a <- googledrive::drive_ls(path = url_googledrive, type = "docx")
for (i in 1:nrow(a)){
  googledrive::drive_download(a$id[i], overwrite = TRUE, path = file.path("data", a$name[i]))
}

Convert the Word files to Rmd

Converting Word to Rmd works well if your Word document is simple and all the text has style of “Normal”. Click the Style pane from the Home tab in Word to see the style applied to text. Real-world Word files don’t convert so well but at least you get the text. Tables are particularly badly converted.

Note, read up on the options in Pandoc. You can tell it how to deal with track changes in the document.

for (i in 1:nrow(a)){
  fil <- file.path(here::here(), "data", a$name[i])
  outfil <- file.path(here::here(), "data", paste0(stringr::str_sub(a$name[i], 1, -5), "Rmd"))
  rmarkdown::pandoc_convert(fil, to="markdown", output = outfil, options=c("--wrap=none", "--extract-media=."))
}