I cannot reply in detail at the moment, but we have a proposal to the Google Summer of Code this year which will address the collaboration issue. The basic idea is to write everything in plain text with markdown (including R code), and compile the file with the knitr package, then convert it to Word or whatever other formats with pandoc, which is an extremely powerful document converter. You can see a simple example here for how knitr works with markdown: http://yihui.name/knitr/demo/upload/ Since everything is in plain text, it is easy to collaborate through a version control system like SVN or GIT. Markdown is easy to write and cleaner compared to Word.
Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Alexander Shenkin <ashen...@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 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
