Extract Data Tables and Comments from ‘Microsoft’ ‘Word’ Documents
An R package for extracting tables & comments out of Word documents (docx). Development versions are available here and production versions are on CRAN.
Microsoft Word docx files provide an XML structure that is fairly straightforward to navigate, especially when it applies to Word tables. The docxtractr package provides tools to determine table count, table structure and extract tables from Microsoft Word docx documents.
Many tables in Word documents are in twisted formats where there may be
labels or other oddities mixed in that make it difficult to work with
the underlying data. docxtractr provides a
function—assign_colnames—that makes it easy to identify a
particular row in a scraped (or any, really) data.frame as the one
containing column names and have it become the column names, removing it
and (optionally) all of the rows before it (since that’s usually what
needs to be done).
The following functions are implemented:
read_docx: Read in a Word document for table extractiondocx_describe_tbls: Returns a description of all the tables in the Word documentdocx_describe_cmnts: Returns a description of all the comments in the Word documentdocx_extract_tbl: Extract a table from a Word documentdocx_extract_all_cmnts: Extract comments from a Word documentdocx_extract_all_tbls: Extract all tables from a Word document (docx_extract_allis now deprecated)docx_tbl_count: Get number of tables in a Word documentdocx_cmnt_count: Get number of comments in a Word documentassign_colnames: Make a specific row the column names for the specified data.framemcga: Make column names great againset_libreoffice_path: Point to Local soffice.exe File
The following data file are included:
system.file("examples/data.docx", package="docxtractr"): Word docx with 1 tablesystem.file("examples/data3.docx", package="docxtractr"): Word docx with 3 tablessystem.file("examples/none.docx", package="docxtractr"): Word docx with 0 tablessystem.file("examples/complex.docx", package="docxtractr"): Word docx with non-uniform tablessystem.file("examples/comments.docx", package="docxtractr"): Word docx with commentssystem.file("examples/realworld.docx", package="docxtractr"): A “real world” Word docx file with tables of all shapes and sizessystem.file("examples/trackchanges.docx", package="docxtractr"): Word docx with track changes in a table
# devtools::install_github("hrbrmstr/docxtractr")
# OR
install.packages("docxtractr")library(docxtractr)
library(tibble)
library(dplyr)
# current version
packageVersion("docxtractr")
#> [1] '0.6.0'# one table
doc <- read_docx(system.file("examples/data.docx", package="docxtractr"))
docx_tbl_count(doc)
#> [1] 1
docx_describe_tbls(doc)
#> Word document [/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.5/Resources/library/docxtractr/examples/data.docx]
#>
#> Table 1
#> total cells: 16
#> row count : 4
#> uniform : likely!
#> has header : likely! => possibly [This, Is, A, Column]
docx_extract_tbl(doc, 1)
#> # A tibble: 3 x 4
#> This Is A Column
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 1 Cat 3.4 Dog
#> 2 3 Fish 100.3 Bird
#> 3 5 Pelican -99 Kangaroo
docx_extract_tbl(doc)
#> # A tibble: 3 x 4
#> This Is A Column
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 1 Cat 3.4 Dog
#> 2 3 Fish 100.3 Bird
#> 3 5 Pelican -99 Kangaroo
docx_extract_tbl(doc, header=FALSE)
#> NOTE: header=FALSE but table has a marked header row in the Word document
#> # A tibble: 4 x 4
#> V1 V2 V3 V4
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 This Is A Column
#> 2 1 Cat 3.4 Dog
#> 3 3 Fish 100.3 Bird
#> 4 5 Pelican -99 Kangaroo
# url
budget <- read_docx("http://rud.is/dl/1.DOCX")
docx_tbl_count(budget)
#> [1] 2
docx_describe_tbls(budget)
#> Word document [http://rud.is/dl/1.DOCX]
#>
#> Table 1
#> total cells: 24
#> row count : 6
#> uniform : likely!
#> has header : unlikely
#>
#> Table 2
#> total cells: 28
#> row count : 4
#> uniform : likely!
#> has header : unlikely
docx_extract_tbl(budget, 1)
#> # A tibble: 5 x 4
#> `` `Short-term Portfolio` `Long-term Portfolio` `Total Portfolio Values`
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Portfolio Balance (Market Value) * $ 123,651,911 $ 294,704,136 $ 418,356,047
#> 2 Effective Yield 0.16 % 1.42 % 1.05 %
#> 3 Avg. Weighted Maturity 11 Days 2.4 Years 1.7 Years
#> 4 Net Earnings $ 18,470 $ 350,554 $ 369,024
#> 5 Benchmark** 0.02 % 0.41 % 0.27 %
docx_extract_tbl(budget, 2)
#> # A tibble: 3 x 7
#> `` `Amount of Funds … Maturity `Effective Yiel… `Interpolated Y… `Total Return … `Total Return …
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Short-Term Portfolio $ 123,651,911 11 days 0.16 % 0.01 % 0.013 0.160
#> 2 Long-Term Portfolio $ 294,704,136 2.4 years 1.42 % 0.41 % 0.437 0.250
#> 3 Total Portfolio $ 418,356,047 1.7 years 1.05 % 0.27 % 0.298 0.222
# three tables
doc3 <- read_docx(system.file("examples/data3.docx", package="docxtractr"))
docx_tbl_count(doc3)
#> [1] 3
docx_describe_tbls(doc3)
#> Word document [/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.5/Resources/library/docxtractr/examples/data3.docx]
#>
#> Table 1
#> total cells: 16
#> row count : 4
#> uniform : likely!
#> has header : likely! => possibly [This, Is, A, Column]
#>
#> Table 2
#> total cells: 12
#> row count : 4
#> uniform : likely!
#> has header : likely! => possibly [Foo, Bar, Baz]
#>
#> Table 3
#> total cells: 14
#> row count : 7
#> uniform : likely!
#> has header : likely! => possibly [Foo, Bar]
docx_extract_tbl(doc3, 3)
#> # A tibble: 6 x 2
#> Foo Bar
#> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Aa Bb
#> 2 Dd Ee
#> 3 Gg Hh
#> 4 1 2
#> 5 Zz Jj
#> 6 Tt ii
# no tables
none <- read_docx(system.file("examples/none.docx", package="docxtractr"))
docx_tbl_count(none)
#> [1] 0
# wrapping in try since it will return an error
# use docx_tbl_count before trying to extract in scripts/production
try(docx_describe_tbls(none))
#> No tables in document
try(docx_extract_tbl(none, 2))
# 5 tables, with two in sketchy formats
complx <- read_docx(system.file("examples/complex.docx", package="docxtractr"))
docx_tbl_count(complx)
#> [1] 5
docx_describe_tbls(complx)
#> Word document [/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.5/Resources/library/docxtractr/examples/complex.docx]
#>
#> Table 1
#> total cells: 16
#> row count : 4
#> uniform : likely!
#> has header : likely! => possibly [This, Is, A, Column]
#>
#> Table 2
#> total cells: 12
#> row count : 4
#> uniform : likely!
#> has header : likely! => possibly [Foo, Bar, Baz]
#>
#> Table 3
#> total cells: 14
#> row count : 7
#> uniform : likely!
#> has header : likely! => possibly [Foo, Bar]
#>
#> Table 4
#> total cells: 11
#> row count : 4
#> uniform : unlikely => found differing cell counts (3, 2) across some rows
#> has header : likely! => possibly [Foo, Bar, Baz]
#>
#> Table 5
#> total cells: 21
#> row count : 7
#> uniform : likely!
#> has header : unlikely
docx_extract_tbl(complx, 3, header=TRUE)
#> # A tibble: 6 x 2
#> Foo Bar
#> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Aa Bb
#> 2 Dd Ee
#> 3 Gg Hh
#> 4 1 2
#> 5 Zz Jj
#> 6 Tt ii
docx_extract_tbl(complx, 4, header=TRUE)
#> # A tibble: 3 x 3
#> Foo Bar Baz
#> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Aa BbCc <NA>
#> 2 Dd Ee Ff
#> 3 Gg Hh ii
docx_extract_tbl(complx, 5, header=TRUE)
#> # A tibble: 6 x 3
#> Foo Bar Baz
#> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Aa Bb Cc
#> 2 Dd Ee Ff
#> 3 Gg Hh Ii
#> 4 Jj88 Kk Ll
#> 5 "" Uu Ii
#> 6 Hh Ii h
# a "real" Word doc
real_world <- read_docx(system.file("examples/realworld.docx", package="docxtractr"))
docx_tbl_count(real_world)
#> [1] 8
# get all the tables
tbls <- docx_extract_all_tbls(real_world)
# see table 1
tbls[[1]]
#> # A tibble: 9 x 9
#> V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Lesson 1: Step 1 <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA>
#> 2 Country Birthrate Death Rate Population Growth 2005 Population Growth 2050 Relative… Social… Socia… Social…
#> 3 USA 2.06 0.51% 0.92% -0.06% Post- In… Female… Stabl… Good t…
#> 4 China 1.62 0.3% 0.6% -0.58% Post- In… Govern… Techn… Urbani…
#> 5 Egypt 2.83 0.41% 2.0% 1.32% Mature I… Not ye… More … Slight…
#> 6 India 2.35 0.34% 1.56% 0.76% Post Ind… Econom… Pover… Becomi…
#> 7 Italy 1.28 0.72% 0.35% -1.33% Late Pos… Stable… Peopl… Better…
#> 8 Mexico 2.43 0.25% 1.41% 0.96% Mature I… Better… Emigr… Econom…
#> 9 Nigeria 4.78 0.26% 2.46% 3.58% End of M… Disease Peopl… People…
# make table 1 better
assign_colnames(tbls[[1]], 2)
#> # A tibble: 7 x 9
#> Country Birthrate `Death Rate` `Population Grow… `Population Grow… `Relative place… `Social Factors… `Social Factors…
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 USA 2.06 0.51% 0.92% -0.06% Post- Industrial Female Independ… Stable Birth Ra…
#> 2 China 1.62 0.3% 0.6% -0.58% Post- Industrial Government inte… Technology
#> 3 Egypt 2.83 0.41% 2.0% 1.32% Mature Industri… Not yet industr… More children n…
#> 4 India 2.35 0.34% 1.56% 0.76% Post Industrial Economic growth Poverty
#> 5 Italy 1.28 0.72% 0.35% -1.33% Late Post indus… Stable birth ra… People marry la…
#> 6 Mexico 2.43 0.25% 1.41% 0.96% Mature Industri… Better health c… Emigration
#> 7 Nigeria 4.78 0.26% 2.46% 3.58% End of Mechaniz… Disease People marry ea…
#> # ... with 1 more variable: `Social Factors 3` <chr>
# make table 1's column names great again
mcga(assign_colnames(tbls[[1]], 2))
#> # A tibble: 7 x 9
#> country birthrate death_rate population_growt… population_growt… relative_place_in… social_factors_1 social_factors_2
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 USA 2.06 0.51% 0.92% -0.06% Post- Industrial Female Independ… Stable Birth Ra…
#> 2 China 1.62 0.3% 0.6% -0.58% Post- Industrial Government inte… Technology
#> 3 Egypt 2.83 0.41% 2.0% 1.32% Mature Industrial Not yet industr… More children n…
#> 4 India 2.35 0.34% 1.56% 0.76% Post Industrial Economic growth Poverty
#> 5 Italy 1.28 0.72% 0.35% -1.33% Late Post industr… Stable birth ra… People marry la…
#> 6 Mexico 2.43 0.25% 1.41% 0.96% Mature Industrial Better health c… Emigration
#> 7 Nigeria 4.78 0.26% 2.46% 3.58% End of Mechanizat… Disease People marry ea…
#> # ... with 1 more variable: social_factors_3 <chr>
# see table 5
tbls[[5]]
#> # A tibble: 5 x 6
#> V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Lesson 2: Step 1 <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA> <NA>
#> 2 Nigeria Default Prediction + 5 years +15 years -5 years
#> 3 Birth rate 4.78 Goes Down 4.76 4.72 4.79
#> 4 Death rate 0.36% Stay the Same 0.42% 0.52% 0.3%
#> 5 Population growth 3.58% Goes Down 3.02% 2.32% 4.38%
# make table 5 better
assign_colnames(tbls[[5]], 2)
#> # A tibble: 3 x 6
#> Nigeria Default Prediction `+ 5 years` `+15 years` `-5 years`
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Birth rate 4.78 Goes Down 4.76 4.72 4.79
#> 2 Death rate 0.36% Stay the Same 0.42% 0.52% 0.3%
#> 3 Population growth 3.58% Goes Down 3.02% 2.32% 4.38%
# preserve lines
intracell_whitespace <- read_docx(system.file("examples/preserve.docx", package="docxtractr"))
docx_extract_all_tbls(intracell_whitespace, preserve=TRUE)
#> [[1]]
#> # A tibble: 6 x 2
#> `Test1:` Apple
#> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Test2: Banana
#> 2 Test3: "Cranberry\nDark"
#> 3 Test4: "Elephant, Farm\nGrandpa"
#> 4 Test5: "Hat\nIgloo\nJackrabbit"
#> 5 Test6: " \nQuestion1\n[ ] Underwear\n[ ] VM\n"
#> 6 Test7: Warm
#>
#> [[2]]
#> # A tibble: 2 x 4
#> `` Kite Lemur Madagascar
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Nanny Open Port Quarter
#> 2 Rain Sand Television Unicorn
#>
#> [[3]]
#> # A tibble: 2 x 2
#> `Test8:` `Xylophone\nYew`
#> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Test9: Zebra
#> 2 Test10: "Apple2\nBanana2\nCranberry2"
docx_extract_all_tbls(intracell_whitespace)
#> [[1]]
#> # A tibble: 6 x 2
#> `Test1:` Apple
#> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Test2: Banana
#> 2 Test3: CranberryDark
#> 3 Test4: Elephant, FarmGrandpa
#> 4 Test5: HatIglooJackrabbit
#> 5 Test6: KiteLemurMadagascarNannyOpenPortQuarterRainSandTelevisionUnicorn Question1[ ] Underwear[ ] VM
#> 6 Test7: Warm
#>
#> [[2]]
#> # A tibble: 2 x 4
#> `` Kite Lemur Madagascar
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Nanny Open Port Quarter
#> 2 Rain Sand Television Unicorn
#>
#> [[3]]
#> # A tibble: 2 x 2
#> `Test8:` XylophoneYew
#> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Test9: Zebra
#> 2 Test10: Apple2Banana2Cranberry2
# comments
cmnts <- read_docx(system.file("examples/comments.docx", package="docxtractr"))
print(cmnts)
#> No tables in document
#> Word document [/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.5/Resources/library/docxtractr/examples/comments.docx]
#>
#> Found 3 comments.
#> # A tibble: 1 x 2
#> author `# Comments`
#> <chr> <int>
#> 1 boB Rudis 3
glimpse(docx_extract_all_cmnts(cmnts))
#> Observations: 3
#> Variables: 5
#> $ id <chr> "0", "1", "2"
#> $ author <chr> "boB Rudis", "boB Rudis", "boB Rudis"
#> $ date <chr> "2016-07-01T21:09:00Z", "2016-07-01T21:09:00Z", "2016-07-01T21:09:00Z"
#> $ initials <chr> "bR", "bR", "bR"
#> $ comment_text <chr> "This is the first comment", "This is the second comment", "This is a reply to the second comm...# original
read_docx(
system.file("examples/trackchanges.docx", package="docxtractr")
) %>%
docx_extract_all_tbls(guess_header = FALSE)
#> NOTE: header=FALSE but table has a marked header row in the Word document
#> [[1]]
#> # A tibble: 1 x 1
#> V1
#> <chr>
#> 1 21
# accept
read_docx(
system.file("examples/trackchanges.docx", package="docxtractr"),
track_changes = "accept"
) %>%
docx_extract_all_tbls(guess_header = FALSE)
#> [[1]]
#> # A tibble: 1 x 1
#> V1
#> <chr>
#> 1 2
# reject
read_docx(
system.file("examples/trackchanges.docx", package="docxtractr"),
track_changes = "reject"
) %>%
docx_extract_all_tbls(guess_header = FALSE)
#> [[1]]
#> # A tibble: 1 x 1
#> V1
#> <chr>
#> 1 1library(docxtractr)
library(testthat)
#>
#> Attaching package: 'testthat'
#> The following object is masked from 'package:dplyr':
#>
#> matches
date()
#> [1] "Tue Oct 23 08:10:10 2018"
test_dir("tests/")
#> ✔ | OK F W S | Context
#> ══ testthat results ═════════════════════════════════════════════════
#> OK: 16 SKIPPED: 0 FAILED: 0
#>
#> ══ Results ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
#> Duration: 0.2 s
#>
#> OK: 0
#> Failed: 0
#> Warnings: 0
#> Skipped: 0Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.