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 >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> R-help@ 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@ 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@ 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@ 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. > ----- Frank Harrell Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-do-Sweave-users-collaborate-with-Word-users-tp4540061p4544413.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.