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

[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 touching the text, or are inserting graphics of
their own, then sounds like things are still good.  But, that's just my
impression from the brief description I've seen online.

Thanks,
Allie

On 4/9/2012 7:42 AM, Paul Bivand wrote:
> 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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