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 tho...@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 <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<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
