Re: [R] How do Sweave users collaborate with Word users?

2012-04-09 Thread Frank Harrell
See http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/SweaveConvert for several other approaches. The most solid way I've found is to convert PDF to Word. Frank Alexander Shenkin wrote > > Thanks for the heads up, Paul. That's good to know. I happen to be in > academics, as are my collaborators, but I could i

Re: [R] How do Sweave users collaborate with Word users?

2012-04-09 Thread Alexander Shenkin
Thanks for the heads up, Paul. That's good to know. I happen to be in academics, as are my collaborators, but I could imagine running into problems down the road. The good thing seems to be that it's just the users who want to interact with R who need the software. If collaborators are just tou

Re: [R] How do Sweave users collaborate with Word users?

2012-04-09 Thread Alexander Shenkin
Thanks Rich, While it doesn't tickle me the way sweave/knitr does, SWord sounds more or less like the thing I'm looking for. However, poking around http://rcom.univie.ac.at/ and http://www.statconn.com doesn't reveal any download links. It seems as though SWord has been pulled from their lineup?

Re: [R] How do Sweave users collaborate with Word users?

2012-04-09 Thread Paul Bivand
If you're considering SWord, you should remember that the licence is not the normal R licence and in commercial use will require a commercial licence. While some academic disciplines use Word etc, the issue may be more common outside academia. For those of us where such requirements involve a proc

Re: [R] How do Sweave users collaborate with Word users?

2012-04-09 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
You might want to consider SWord, which provides similar facilities for the Word and R user. Word-oriented co-authors can modify the Word part of the document without impacting the R part of the document. SWord is by Thomas Baier tho...@statconn.com, author of the statconnDCOM interface that is u

Re: [R] How do Sweave users collaborate with Word users?

2012-04-08 Thread Alexander Shenkin
This sounds neat, and I wish you the best of luck with it. While I'm sure it'll be great for folks who are already curious enough to dive into Sweave or knitr, my guess is that coaxing collaborators into using markdown with SVN or GIT instead of passing around a Word file with Track Changes is goi

Re: [R] How do Sweave users collaborate with Word users?

2012-04-07 Thread mlell08
would it be possible to separate the parts generated by R from the actually written paths? As creating small doc's by sweave which contain the generated reports and embedding them via OLE into the static written text. However, this could require sending around multiple documents around each time...

Re: [R] How do Sweave users collaborate with Word users?

2012-04-07 Thread Yihui Xie
I cannot reply in detail at the moment, but we have a proposal to the Google Summer of Code this year which will address the collaboration issue. The basic idea is to write everything in plain text with markdown (including R code), and compile the file with the knitr package, then convert it to Wor

[R] How do Sweave users collaborate with Word users?

2012-04-07 Thread Alexander Shenkin
Hello All, I'm getting my workflow switched over to Sweave, which is very cool. However, I collaborate with folks (as many of you must as well) who use Word to Track Changes amongst a group while crafting a paper. In the simplest case, there will just be two people (one Sweave user and one Word u