[R] Writing Reports from R in Microsoft Office Open XML format (follow-up)

Greg Snow Greg.Snow at imail.org
Fri Sep 18 18:51:14 CEST 2009


The people who brought us rexcel are working on sword which is a sweave for ms word, the current version  is at:

http://rcom.univie.ac.at/download.html

hope this helps,


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Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Tobias Sing
> Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 9:39 AM
> To: Duncan Temple Lang; r help; max.kuhn at pfizer.com
> Subject: [R] Writing Reports from R in Microsoft Office Open XML format
> (follow-up)
> 
> Dear Duncan and other R users,
> 
> The department in which I work will soon make some decisions to
> improve our reporting. Since I hope that our solution will support R
> and Sweave-like functionality (otherwise it wouldn't be an
> improvement....), I hope it's ok to repeat my question back from June
> if there are any news on an odfWeave-like package for weaving
> Microsoft Word documents? (in the Office Open XML format).
> 
> Duncan, any news on the package? I am also asking on the list again
> because there might be developments by others in parallel to what
> Duncan has mentioned below?
> (For example, maybe someone is thinking of adapting Max Kuhn's
> excellent odfWeave package to support the XML format of Microsoft
> Word?)
> 
> Kind regards,
>   Tobias
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Duncan Temple Lang
> <duncan at wald.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> > Yes. We will release a version in the next few weeks
> > when I have time to wrap it all up.
> > There is also a Docbook-based version that uses
> > R extensions to Docbook for authoring structured
> > documents.
> >
> >  D.
> >
> > Tobias Sing wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> has someone implemented functionality for writing reports from R in
> >> Office Open XML format (*), similar to what odfWeave does for the
> ODF
> >> format of OpenOffice? It would be great to have a kind of
> >> "ooxmlWeave".... at least for those of us who are forced to work in
> an
> >> MS ecosystem.
> >>
> >> (*) Office Open XML is the default, XML-based, file format for MS
> >> Word: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >>  Tobias
> >>
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