PPT.Open {R2PPT}R Documentation

Open an existing PowerPoint presentation

Description

Opens an existing PowerPoint presentation using rcom.

Usage

PPT.Open(file)

Arguments

file Required filename giving the full file path to existing PowerPoint presentation. See example.

Value

ppt Invisibly returns an initialised list of objects of class 'COMobject'.

Warning

You must save the returned list of ComObjects initialised with PPT.Open to an R object.

Author(s)

Wayne Jones wayne_betws@hotmail.com

References

See http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/rcom for more details on rcom.

See Also

PPT.Init,PPT.SaveAs,PPT.Close,PPT.AddTitleSlide,PPT.AddTextSlide,PPT.AddTitleOnlySlide,PPT.Present,PPT.ApplyTemplate,PPT.AddGraphicstoSlide

Examples


## Not run: 
#Create and save a presentation

myPres<-PPT.Init(visible=FALSE)
myPres<-PPT.AddTitleSlide(myPres,title="Title Slide",subtitle="Subtitle here")
myPres<-PPT.AddTitleOnlySlide(myPres,title="Title Only",title.fontsize=40,title.font="Arial")
myPres<-PPT.AddTextSlide(myPres,title="Text Slide",text="Text1 \rText2 \rText3",text.font="Arial")
myPres<-PPT.SaveAs(myPres,file=paste(getwd(),"test R2PPT Pres.ppt",sep="/"))
myPres<-PPT.Close(myPres)
rm(myPres)

#Open the saved presentation and carry on...

myPres<-PPT.Open(file=paste(getwd(),"test R2PPT Pres.ppt",sep="/"))
myPres<-PPT.AddTitleOnlySlide(myPres,title="Carry on appending to existing PPT file!")

## End(Not run) 


[Package R2PPT version 1.0 Index]