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

[Frank Harrell]

See http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/SweaveConvert for several other
approaches.  The most solid way I've found is to convert PDF to Word.

Frank

Alexander Shenkin wrote
> 
> 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@> 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@, 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@>
>>> 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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