Having no clue about the specifics here, but what about:
wdGet(filename = "myDoc.doc", path = "c:/mydata")
You are leaving out what "didn't work" means.
What error are you receiving?
Felipe Carrillo wrote:> Hi:
> How can one open an existing word document with wdGet()
> I am getting an error message when trying to open it like this:
> wdGet(filename="myDoc.doc",path="c/mydata")
> Looking at Tal Galili's website example it appears that double
backslashes
> are used but i tried it and didn't work either. Thanks
>
> Felipe D. Carrillo
> Supervisory Fishery Biologist
> Department of the Interior
> US Fish & Wildlife Service
> California, USA
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