The ReporteRs package, which in this package is used for generating specialty Word output, is no longer on CRAN and has been deprecated in favor of officer and . So we need to refactor functions, in particular outbreak_word() to use officer. This will also make it easier to install and faster.
I think almost everything that needs to be replaced is in the postprocessing function in outbreak_word(), which takes the knitted output and makes a fancier word document of it by (1) inserting the document into another document, and (b) adding various metadata and images into the document at the location of bookmarks in the template.. It's possible that the inst/template.docx may also have to be modified if the officer functions are a bit different.
Also the usaid_word() function is a near-clone of outbreak_word() and they could be refactored not to reuse so much code.
noamross
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6 years ago
The ReporteRs package, which in this package is used for generating specialty Word output, is no longer on CRAN and has been deprecated in favor of officer and . So we need to refactor functions, in particular
outbreak_word()to use officer. This will also make it easier to install and faster.I think almost everything that needs to be replaced is in the postprocessing function in
outbreak_word(), which takes the knitted output and makes a fancier word document of it by (1) inserting the document into another document, and (b) adding various metadata and images into the document at the location of bookmarks in the template.. It's possible that theinst/template.docxmay also have to be modified if the officer functions are a bit different.Also the
usaid_word()function is a near-clone ofoutbreak_word()and they could be refactored not to reuse so much code.