Printing the contents of a character variable in Rmarkdown output knitted to a Word document

[landonphd]

I have scraped text and have placed it into a tibble with one character variable "value" and one observation of this variable ""this is a character variable".

I want to print the contents of character_variable$value as text in the output of an Rmarkdown document that is knitted to a Word document.

This is similar in essence to printing the contents of numerical variables in a line of text. For an example, see: https://www.earthdatascience.org/courses/earth-analytics/multispectral-remote-sensing-modis/add-variables-to-rmarkdown-report/

However, the code snippets used in this and similar examples don't appear to be applicable to character variables.

What I would like to see in the Word document output:

This is the text I have scraped: this is a character variable.

 
# Text scraped from somewhere and placed into the variable "value" in the tibble "character_variable"
character_variable <- ("this is a character variable")
character_variable <- as_tibble(character_variable)

character_variable

# value
#  <chr>
#  this is a character variable				
# 1 row

#code snippet that appears to be applicable to numerical variables but not character variables:
text  'This is the text I have scraped:  `r character_variable`.'

Does anyone have any experience with this or insight in how to accomplish it?

Thanks in advance.

[andresrcs]

@landonphd

I want to print the contents of character_variable$value as text in the output of an Rmarkdown document that is knitted to a Word document.

I'm confused, it seems like you already have the answer to your question

text  'This is the text I have scraped:  `r character_variable$value`.'

Is not this your desired output?

[landonphd]

@andresrcs, Thanks for your response.

I think I didn't explain what I want very well.

My final desired output is this sentence: This is the text I have scraped: this is a character variable.

I want this output in a Word document knitted frrom the Rmarkdown script.

The section "this is a character variable" is the contents of the variable "value" in the tibble, character_value.

This snippet of code returns the error listed below the snippet.

# Text scraped from somewhere and placed into the variable "character_variable"
character_variable <- ("this is a character variable")
character_variable <- as_tibble(character_variable)

text  'This is the text I have scraped:  `r character_variable$value`.'

Error: unexpected string constant in "text 'This is the text I have scraped: r character_variable$value.'"

I hope this clarifies my problem.

Thanks again for your help.

[andresrcs]

Your problem is that you are putting text inside the r code chunk, just take it out.

---
title: "Untitled"
output: word_document
---

```{r}
library(tibble)
# Text scraped from somewhere and placed into the variable "character_variable"
character_variable <- "this is a character variable"
character_variable <- as_tibble(character_variable)
```
This is the text I have scraped: `r character_variable$value`.

[landonphd]

@andresrcs, thanks!

Your solution fixed two errors: Removing the sentence from the r code chunk and adding the variable ($value) to the r character_variable$value.

I really appreciate your help with this.

Linda