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Does officer package support old format of PPT files (Window 97-2003)

R Officer package is not able to read old PPT files of type Windows Presentation 97-2003. It gives below error. simpleError in zip::unzip(zipfile = newfile, exdir = folder): zip error: Cannot open zip fileC:\Users\user1\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpeYD5pQ\file41fc3c39b6.pptfor reading in file zip.c:238>

below is the sample code

content <- read_pptx(fileName)
data <- pptx_summary(content)

The content object should return rpptx object.

Solution

  • No, the officer package only support *.docx and *.pptx documents. See https://davidgohel.github.io/officer/ for more details