R2PPT (version 2.2.0)

PPT.Open: Open an existing PowerPoint presentation

Description

Opens an existing PowerPoint presentation.

Usage

PPT.Open(file=stop("filename must be specified"),method="RDCOMClient")

Arguments

file

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

method

Choice of underlying COM technology method to implement R2PPT. Legacy function input, always uses RDCOMClient now.

Value

ppt

Invisibly returns a list of COM objects.

Warning

You must save the returned list of COM objects initialised with PPT.Init to an R object. See the example.

References

See https://github.com/omegahat/RDCOMClient for more details on RDCOMClient and https://github.com/waynegitshell/R2PPT/ for R2PPT source code.

See Also

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

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# }
# 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!")

# }
# NOT RUN {
# }