Thanks Duncan and Greg for the replies so far. Duncan, many thanks for your continued work on this; please let us (or at least me) know when your package will be available.
Greg, the DCOM option sounds great, but we run R on a Linux cluster, and therefore it would be good to be able to write the reports in MS Word XML format from there without relying on Windows-specific functionality. Kind regards, Tobias On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Greg Snow <greg.s...@imail.org> wrote: > I read the original post as asking if there is something like odfWeave that > works for msword (I assumed windows, but I guess they could be asking about > MSword on other platforms, it just sounds like a windows shop). > > But yes, sword only works on windows (and is in beta version still) and uses > a different interface from the standard sweave and odfWeave (process from > inside word rather than process a file through R). > > > > -- > Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. > Statistical Data Center > Intermountain Healthcare > greg.s...@imail.org > 801.408.8111 > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Duncan Temple Lang [mailto:dun...@wald.ucdavis.edu] >> Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 11:00 AM >> To: Greg Snow >> Cc: Tobias Sing; r help >> Subject: Re: [R] Writing Reports from R in Microsoft Office Open XML >> format (follow-up) >> >> >> I believe that their approach is based on DCOM and the post was about >> Office Open XML. >> We have had the ability to do this via DCOM for at least 6 years, but >> unfortunately >> DCOM is limited to Windows. >> >> >> Greg Snow wrote: >> > The people who brought us rexcel are working on sword which is a >> sweave for ms word, the current version is at: >> > >> > http://rcom.univie.ac.at/download.html >> > >> > hope this helps, >> > >> > > ______________________________________________ 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.