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antiword

Extract Text from Microsoft Word Documents

v1.3.5 · Feb 26, 2026 · GPL-2

Description

Wraps the 'AntiWord' utility to extract text from Microsoft Word documents. The utility only supports the old 'doc' format, not the new xml based 'docx' format. Use the 'xml2' package to read the latter.

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r2u CRAN

36

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167

Last 90 days

721

Last year

Trend: -25% (30d vs prior 30d)

autoCRAN

17

Last 7 days

40

Last 30 days

3

All-time

autoCRAN-only: this name is served only by autoCRAN, so the count is exact.

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Check History

OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

Code

Structure

Lines of code

34,239

Files

116

Compiled share

99.8%

Has compiled src

Yes

Language breakdown

R 35 (0.1%)C/C++/src 34,183 (99.8%)Docs 21 (0.1%)

API

Exported functions

1

Internal functions

0

Testing & CI

Has tests

No

Test-to-code ratio

0.00

testthat edition

CI present

No

CI type

[]

PR gated

No

Docs

Return-value doc rate

0%

\dontrun example ratio

0%

Roxygen coverage

100%

Has pkgdown

No

NEWS present

Yes

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

100%

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

100%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

System requirements

C++ standard

License

GPL-2

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

9

First release

2017-04-22

Latest release

2026-02-27

Avg cadence

380 days

Cold removal rate

Dep drift

0

LOC over versions

v1.0: 34,237 LOCv1.1: 34,254 LOCv1.2: 34,254 LOCv1.3: 34,251 LOCv1.3.1: 34,251 LOCv1.3.2: 34,244 LOCv1.3.3: 34,239 LOCv1.3.4: 34,239 LOCv1.3.5: 34,239 LOC

Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/cran-code-metrics.

Reverse Dependencies (2)

imports

suggests

tm

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies sys readtext tm antiword

Version History

10 tracked
new 1.3.5 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.3.5 ← 1.3.4 diff Feb 26, 2026
updated 1.3.4 ← 1.3.3 diff Oct 3, 2024
updated 1.3.3 ← 1.3.2 diff Jan 29, 2024
updated 1.3.2 ← 1.3.1 diff Jan 17, 2024
updated 1.3.1 ← 1.3 diff Mar 20, 2022
updated 1.3 ← 1.2 diff Nov 8, 2018
updated 1.2 ← 1.1 diff Oct 6, 2018
updated 1.1 ← 1.0 diff Apr 28, 2017
new 1.0 Apr 21, 2017