[R] R vs. Splus in Pharma/Devices Industry

[Greg Snow]

I am happy to say nice things about odfWeave.  Before it was released I
was looking at the RTF spec to see if I could write an RTF driver for
sweave.  But the task was a bit daunting and I doubt that I would have
had time for it.  So, I was (and still am) exited when odfWeave came
out.  It is a big time saver for  me and I have shown it to several
other people as well.

I have looked at ooconvert, but unfortunately the current version is
limited to *nix, and I am currently in a MS windows world.  I tried
getting it to run under cygwin at one point, but did not succeed at the
time.  Once it is available more generally, I will just set up Makefiles
so that I can automatically produce either .doc or .pdf documents from
my templates and data.

Thanks for the great package,

-- 
Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at intermountainmail.org
(801) 408-8111
 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kuhn, Max [mailto:Max.Kuhn at pfizer.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 3:11 PM
> To: Greg Snow; Cody_Hamilton at edwards.com; r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: RE: [R] R vs. Splus in Pharma/Devices Industry
> 
> Greg,
> 
> Thanks for the kind words about odfWeave.
> 
> > 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)
> 
> I agree that automating the conversion should be easier. My 
> wish would be that the OO binary had a flag to convert from 
> one format to another.
> 
> On Linux, there is a bash script that uses the open office 
> binaries to do the conversion at the command line by Nathan Coulter at
> 
>    http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooconvert/
> 
> Also, there is a Java class called jooconvert out there (if memory
> serves) that has similar functionality.
> 
> Max
> 
> 
> 
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