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!
> >
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> --
> Joshua Wiley
> Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology
> Programmer Analyst II, Statistical Consulting Group
> University of California, Los Angeles
> https://joshuawiley.com/
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