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

[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 procurement process,
the need to purchase something when other users (and the
administration) are happy with their Word/Excel solutions may be an
insurmountable barrier.

Good luck

Paul Bivand
Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion (a non-profit organisation)
London



On 9 April 2012 13:23, Richard M. Heiberger <rmh at temple.edu> wrote:
> 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 thomas at statconn.com, author of the statconnDCOM
> interface
> that is underneath RExcel.  See rcom.univie.ac.at for information and
> download and to
> sign up on the rcom email list.
>
> Rich
>
> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Alexander Shenkin <ashenkin at ufl.edu> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
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