Look at the SWord package. It is available from rcom.univie.ac.at. It is the integration of R and Word similar to RExcel at the same site.
Rich On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Joshua Wiley <jwiley.ps...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Michael, > > I like Sweave and LaTeX, but I can appreciate the difficulty using it > with collaborators. What about something similar using HTML? > Certainly integrates to any webpages nicely. There are two packages I > think do this nicely, one is the R2HTML package (on CRAN). Another > one that is not on CRAN yet, but I think has a lot of potential is the > knitr package. You can find it on github. > > I am not personally familiar with any good ways to integrate R with MS > Office products. > > Cheers, > > Josh > > On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Michael <comtech....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Happy New Year all! > > > > I am looking for a good solution for keeping record of my experiments - > > could you please help me? > > > > My work is about analysing data... My current work-flow: > > > > 1. Everyday my bosses give me some small steps/tasks for analysing data - > > which are parts of one bigger/whole project. > > 2. Everyday I send tens of emails to bosses/colleagues to report my > > findings in each step. > > 3. Bosses/colleagues often respond to my findings in real-time and > suggest > > new experiments/steps and ask "what-if" questions. > > 4. I often have to manually copy and paste the results from R console and > > put them into an Excel and decorate a bit and send out. > > 5. Every one week and 2 weeks, we need to present to more senior bosses > > with more nice-looking presentations which is a summary of our findings > in > > those 1-2 weeks. It's this time that is most chaotic because my > colleagues > > and I have to dig into all the hundreds of emails in the past 1-2 weeks > and > > copy and paste and organize those data again and make a nice overall > > summary for presentation... > > 6. As I am a hard-working guy, I myself often run my own random/ad-hoc > > experiments using out-of-work time and whenever I have interesting > > findings, I will send to immediate bosses and colleagues to seek their > > comments. > > 7. All these experiments are in fact variations of different > versions/ideas > > of one big/whole project. Lets say in one big project bosses/colleagues > and > > I have come up with a few big ideas, then we have a few sub-projects: > > > > MyProjectIdea1 > > MyProjectIdea2 > > ... > > MyProjectIdeaN > > > > And each idea has a few variations, mostly are for answering "what-if" > > questions by varying the parameters here and there ... > > For example: > > > > MyProjectIdea1_Variation1_WhatIfParam1ChangedTo1.2? > > ... > > ... > > etc. > > > > 8. Most experiments run tens of minutes to many hours... and some of them > > have to run on Linux, and some others can be run on Windows. Fortunately > we > > have universal paths accessible on both Windows and Linux, so those won't > > be problem... > > > > 9. Because of the time-consuming nature of these experiments, I also save > > the images as "rData" whenever I can. However, it's necessary to keep > track > > of the context where these data were generated. Otherwise even the > records > > of these images won't help recall the scenario we have run... > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > > Keeping track of these changes and all kinds of "what-if"s now becomes > > increasingly a problem for me. > > > > Some times in order to respond to a query, although I have done it before > > already, but because I didn't keep record and save the result, or even > > though I have saved the memory image yet I am not completely sure about > the > > "cleanness" of the results/data,I have to redo it and wait for another > few > > hours. > > > > Is there a way that I can manage these whole processes better and be more > > productive? > > > > I have been digging and thinking about this for while and I guess Sweave > is > > the right way to go? > > > > The problem for Sweave is that it's hard to make Latex generated pdf > > appealing to business managers... so if I keep records in Sweave/Latex > for > > my own record/benefit (that's already a big benefit)... I still need to > > somehow manually copy/paste the data from Sweave/Latex/pdf into > > Word/Excel/Powerpoint in order to make a nice presentation... > > > > I know there are some Open Office and Word version of Sweave... the > problem > > is that I couldn't find many demonstrations on these topics and my > question > > is: are they good and can they fulfill what we needed? > > > > Your thoughts are greatly appreciated! > > > > Thanks a lot! > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > -- > Joshua Wiley > Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology > Programmer Analyst II, Statistical Consulting Group > University of California, Los Angeles > https://joshuawiley.com/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
