The html route is one I have used quite a lot, but rather than R2HTML I far prefer hwriter. I have spent some time on enhancing hwriter and you can find my hwriterPlus on R-forge. It has fairly extensive examples and a vignette in the inst directory. I am still working on some improvements to the package.
David Scott ________________________________________ From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [r-help-boun...@r-project.org] on behalf of Joshua Wiley [jwiley.ps...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 9:31 AM To: Michael Cc: r-help Subject: Re: [R] R report generator (for Word)? Hi Michael, I like Sweave and LaTeX, but I can appreciate the difficulty using it with collaborators. What about something similar using HTML? Certainly integrates to any webpages nicely. There are two packages I think do this nicely, one is the R2HTML package (on CRAN). Another one that is not on CRAN yet, but I think has a lot of potential is the knitr package. You can find it on github. I am not personally familiar with any good ways to integrate R with MS Office products. Cheers, Josh On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Michael <comtech....@gmail.com> wrote: > Happy New Year all! > > I am looking for a good solution for keeping record of my experiments - > could you please help me? > > My work is about analysing data... My current work-flow: > > 1. Everyday my bosses give me some small steps/tasks for analysing data - > which are parts of one bigger/whole project. > 2. Everyday I send tens of emails to bosses/colleagues to report my > findings in each step. > 3. Bosses/colleagues often respond to my findings in real-time and suggest > new experiments/steps and ask "what-if" questions. > 4. I often have to manually copy and paste the results from R console and > put them into an Excel and decorate a bit and send out. > 5. Every one week and 2 weeks, we need to present to more senior bosses > with more nice-looking presentations which is a summary of our findings in > those 1-2 weeks. It's this time that is most chaotic because my colleagues > and I have to dig into all the hundreds of emails in the past 1-2 weeks and > copy and paste and organize those data again and make a nice overall > summary for presentation... > 6. As I am a hard-working guy, I myself often run my own random/ad-hoc > experiments using out-of-work time and whenever I have interesting > findings, I will send to immediate bosses and colleagues to seek their > comments. > 7. All these experiments are in fact variations of different versions/ideas > of one big/whole project. Lets say in one big project bosses/colleagues and > I have come up with a few big ideas, then we have a few sub-projects: > > MyProjectIdea1 > MyProjectIdea2 > ... > MyProjectIdeaN > > And each idea has a few variations, mostly are for answering "what-if" > questions by varying the parameters here and there ... > For example: > > MyProjectIdea1_Variation1_WhatIfParam1ChangedTo1.2? > ... > ... > etc. > > 8. Most experiments run tens of minutes to many hours... and some of them > have to run on Linux, and some others can be run on Windows. Fortunately we > have universal paths accessible on both Windows and Linux, so those won't > be problem... > > 9. Because of the time-consuming nature of these experiments, I also save > the images as "rData" whenever I can. However, it's necessary to keep track > of the context where these data were generated. Otherwise even the records > of these images won't help recall the scenario we have run... > > --------------------------------------------------- > > Keeping track of these changes and all kinds of "what-if"s now becomes > increasingly a problem for me. > > Some times in order to respond to a query, although I have done it before > already, but because I didn't keep record and save the result, or even > though I have saved the memory image yet I am not completely sure about the > "cleanness" of the results/data,I have to redo it and wait for another few > hours. > > Is there a way that I can manage these whole processes better and be more > productive? > > I have been digging and thinking about this for while and I guess Sweave is > the right way to go? > > The problem for Sweave is that it's hard to make Latex generated pdf > appealing to business managers... so if I keep records in Sweave/Latex for > my own record/benefit (that's already a big benefit)... I still need to > somehow manually copy/paste the data from Sweave/Latex/pdf into > Word/Excel/Powerpoint in order to make a nice presentation... > > I know there are some Open Office and Word version of Sweave... the problem > is that I couldn't find many demonstrations on these topics and my question > is: are they good and can they fulfill what we needed? > > Your thoughts are greatly appreciated! > > Thanks a lot! > > [[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. -- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology Programmer Analyst II, Statistical Consulting Group University of California, Los Angeles https://joshuawiley.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. ______________________________________________ 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.
