R help - Sep 2009 - Writing Reports from R in Microsoft Office Open XML format (follow-up)

Dear Duncan and other R users,

The department in which I work will soon make some decisions to
improve our reporting. Since I hope that our solution will support R
and Sweave-like functionality (otherwise it wouldn't be an
improvement....), I hope it's ok to repeat my question back from June
if there are any news on an odfWeave-like package for weaving
Microsoft Word documents? (in the Office Open XML format).

Duncan, any news on the package? I am also asking on the list again
because there might be developments by others in parallel to what
Duncan has mentioned below?
(For example, maybe someone is thinking of adapting Max Kuhn's
excellent odfWeave package to support the XML format of Microsoft
Word?)

Kind regards,
  Tobias


On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Duncan Temple Lang
<duncan at wald.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> Yes. We will release a version in the next few weeks
> when I have time to wrap it all up.
> There is also a Docbook-based version that uses
> R extensions to Docbook for authoring structured
> documents.
>
> ?D.
>
> Tobias Sing wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> has someone implemented functionality for writing reports from R in
>> Office Open XML format (*), similar to what odfWeave does for the ODF
>> format of OpenOffice? It would be great to have a kind of
>> "ooxmlWeave".... at least for those of us who are forced to
work in an
>> MS ecosystem.
>>
>> (*) Office Open XML is the default, XML-based, file format for MS
>> Word: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> ?Tobias
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>> R-help at 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.
>
>

Tobias Sing wrote:
> Dear Duncan and other R users,
> 
> The department in which I work will soon make some decisions to
> improve our reporting. Since I hope that our solution will support R
> and Sweave-like functionality (otherwise it wouldn't be an
> improvement....), I hope it's ok to repeat my question back from June
> if there are any news on an odfWeave-like package for weaving
> Microsoft Word documents? (in the Office Open XML format).
> 
> Duncan, any news on the package? 
While I am starting a new quarter in a week,
I expect that I will have a version of it packaged up
before then.
> I am also asking on the list again
> because there might be developments by others in parallel to what
> Duncan has mentioned below?
> (For example, maybe someone is thinking of adapting Max Kuhn's
> excellent odfWeave package to support the XML format of Microsoft
> Word?)
> 
> Kind regards,
>   Tobias
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Duncan Temple Lang
> <duncan at wald.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>> Yes. We will release a version in the next few weeks
>> when I have time to wrap it all up.
>> There is also a Docbook-based version that uses
>> R extensions to Docbook for authoring structured
>> documents.
>>
>>  D.
>>
>> Tobias Sing wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> has someone implemented functionality for writing reports from R in
>>> Office Open XML format (*), similar to what odfWeave does for the
ODF
>>> format of OpenOffice? It would be great to have a kind of
>>> "ooxmlWeave".... at least for those of us who are forced
to work in an
>>> MS ecosystem.
>>>
>>> (*) Office Open XML is the default, XML-based, file format for MS
>>> Word: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>  Tobias
>>>
>>> ______________________________________________
>>> R-help at 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 at 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.

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,


-- 
Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Tobias Sing
> Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 9:39 AM
> To: Duncan Temple Lang; r help; max.kuhn at pfizer.com
> Subject: [R] Writing Reports from R in Microsoft Office Open XML format
> (follow-up)
> 
> Dear Duncan and other R users,
> 
> The department in which I work will soon make some decisions to
> improve our reporting. Since I hope that our solution will support R
> and Sweave-like functionality (otherwise it wouldn't be an
> improvement....), I hope it's ok to repeat my question back from June
> if there are any news on an odfWeave-like package for weaving
> Microsoft Word documents? (in the Office Open XML format).
> 
> Duncan, any news on the package? I am also asking on the list again
> because there might be developments by others in parallel to what
> Duncan has mentioned below?
> (For example, maybe someone is thinking of adapting Max Kuhn's
> excellent odfWeave package to support the XML format of Microsoft
> Word?)
> 
> Kind regards,
>   Tobias
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Duncan Temple Lang
> <duncan at wald.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> > Yes. We will release a version in the next few weeks
> > when I have time to wrap it all up.
> > There is also a Docbook-based version that uses
> > R extensions to Docbook for authoring structured
> > documents.
> >
> > ?D.
> >
> > Tobias Sing wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> has someone implemented functionality for writing reports from R
in
> >> Office Open XML format (*), similar to what odfWeave does for the
> ODF
> >> format of OpenOffice? It would be great to have a kind of
> >> "ooxmlWeave".... at least for those of us who are forced
to work in
> an
> >> MS ecosystem.
> >>
> >> (*) Office Open XML is the default, XML-based, file format for MS
> >> Word: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >> ?Tobias
> >>
> >> ______________________________________________
> >> R-help at 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 at 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.

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,
> 
>

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.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duncan Temple Lang [mailto:duncan at 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,
> >
> >

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.Snow at 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.snow at imail.org
> 801.408.8111
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Duncan Temple Lang [mailto:duncan at 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,
>> >
>> >
>