Hans-Peter and other R developers, How are you? Have you made any progess with embedding Url's in Excel?
Well, I have been busy thinking of more things for you to do;) My colleagues in the lab are not R literate, and some are barely computer literate, so I give them everything in Excel workbooks. I have gradually evolved a system such that these workbooks have become compendia of my data, output, and methods. That, in fact, is why I bought the Pro version of xlsReadWritePro. I have been saving graphics as PDF files, then inserting them as object in Excel sheets. What I would like to be able to do is to embed objects (files) in sheets of a workbook directly from within R. I would also like to be able to save my current R workspace as an object embedded in a sheet so that in the future, if packages change, I could go back and recreate the analysis. I do not need to be able to manuipulate files that R has not created, like a PDF file from another user. I would, however, like to be able to save my graphics as PDF files inside a worksheet, even if it meant creating a temp file or something. Before people begin talking about how MySQL or some other database could handle all that archiving, let me say that that is not what my colleagues want. They want a nice Excel file that they can take home on there laptops. One thing I like about worksheets is that they themselves can contain many embedded files, so it keeps our virtual desks neater and less confusing. Hans, if you could do this, it would be of tremendous benefit to me and hopefully a lot of people. R developers tend to think that all scientists are running Linux on 64-bit computers, but most biomedical researches still store date in Excel files. This won't solve everybody's needs, but it could be a start. Well, let me know what you think. I am cc'ing R-devel to see if any of those guys have ideas as well. Thanks, Mark -- Mark W. Kimpel MD Neuroinformatics Department of Psychiatry Indiana University School of Medicine ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel