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

[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 user) editing a paper.

I'm wondering, how do Sweave users go about this?  I could convert a
sweave file to a .docx easily enough via an intermediary pdf, rtf, html
or otherwise.  However, once the file has been marked up with changes,
the challenge is to migrate those (accepted) changes back to the sweave
document.  Perhaps the most straightforward way is to manually
back-propagate changes, but I imagine that could be a painstaking process.

Ideally, I imagine a tool that puts invisible tags in the word document
when it is originally produced from Sweave, and is then able to
propagate changes back to that sweave file after markup.  I'd be
pleasantly surprised if such a tool existed.

Perhaps there are other ways of making this work.  Any thoughts are
kindly appreciated!

Thanks,
Allie