In my case, the MS word users know just enough about statistics to know that they need a statistician (me or one of my group), so it is usually me that sets up the template. This is generally for a set of graphs/tables that will be included in a paper or presentation. They do most of the initial writing then I send them the graphs and tables that they can cut and paste into the word document, then that gets passed around to the various authors for editing (I usually end up doing the stats methods and conclusions as well).
Before the odfWeave package, I would usually generate graphs one at a time, copy and paste them into a word document, then create the tables in a matrix, use write.table('clipboard', sep='\t') and paste that into excel, then copy and paste that into word. A real pain. Now I can set up an open office document for the plots and tables, run it through odfWeave, convert the output document to word and send it to them, they usually copy and paste from the document I send to one they are working on. If someone has an existing word document that you would like to turn into a template, just use open office to convert it to an .odt file, then replace any output that you want to be able to regenerate with the sweave/R statements and run it. It works pretty well. I do work indirectly with some other statisticians that have to produce monthly reports (that are essentially the same from month to month with updated data). I am working on converting them to using R/sweave. These reports are usually put out as internal webpages for various people in the organization to look at, so we could either go the odfWeave approach and generate pdf files (not as automated as I would like), or use the R2HTML approach and have the template files and results as html. Hope this helps, -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare [EMAIL PROTECTED] (801) 408-8111 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 2:19 PM > To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [R] R vs. Splus in Pharma/Devices Industry > > > Greg, > > This is very interesting. Perhaps something similar could be > worked out here. Do you have to get MS Word users to work > only with the template you provide, or can they provide you > any old MS Word document? > > Regards, -Cody > > Cody Hamilton, PhD > Edwards Lifesciences > > But sweave is expanding. There is a driver for HTML sweaving > in the R2HTML package and the odfWeave package allows you to > sweave with open office docs (which can be converted to/from > MS word). I personally like using LaTeX and the original > sweave, but I work with people who want everything in MS word > or similar, so for them I will create a template file in open > office, odfWeave that, convert to MS word and send that to them. > > I think the offset is more that S-PLUS 8 is supposed to > implement many of the things that R does now (I don't know > which, I'm waiting for my copy of 8), so soon it may be > possible to sweave in both. > > -- > Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. > Statistical Data Center > Intermountain Healthcare > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (801) 408-8111 > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 4:07 PM > > To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > > Subject: Re: [R] R vs. Splus in Pharma/Devices Industry > > > > > > I should have also noted that Sweave is available for use with R. > > This is offset, however, by the fact that I will probably never be > > able to convince anyone to use Latex. This is a pity as I > often find > > myself admiring reports done in Latex as opposed to the ones I have > > worked on in MS Word. > > > > Cody Hamilton, PhD > > Edwards Lifesciences > > > > As always, I am speaking for myself and not necessarily for Edwards > > Lifesciences. > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.