The challenge of integrating Microsoft products with R software has been an outstanding issue for several years. Reasons for these issues are complicated and related to fundamental differences in developing proprietary vs open-source products. To date, I don't believe there has been a satisfactory solution but I present this blog as my attempt to work around at least some of the issues using the two. As a regular contributor to R-bloggers, I stress that one should use MS products as little as possible given the many issues that have been described (for example, here, here, and here). It's not my intent to pick on Microsoft. In fact, I think Excel is a rather nifty program that has its place in specific situations. However, most of my work is not conducive to the point-and-click style of spreadsheet analysis and the surprising limited number of operations available in Excel prevent all but the simplest analyses. I try my best to keep my work within the confines of RStudio, given its integration with multiple document preparation systems.
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I work with several talented researchers that have different philosophies than my own on the use of Microsoft products. It's inevitable that we're occasionally at odds. Our difficulties go both directions — my insistence on using pdfs for creating reports or manuscripts and the other party's inclination towards the spreadsheet style of analysis. It seems silly that we're limited by the types of medium we prefer. I've recently been interested in developing a workflow that addresses some of the issues of using end-products from different sources under the notion of reproducibility. To this end, I used Pandoc and relevant R packages (namely gdata and knitr) to develop a stand-alone workflow that allows integration of Microsoft products with my existing workflows. The idea is simple. I want to import data sent to me in .xlsx format, conduct the analysis and report generation entirely within RStudio, and convert the output to .docx format on completion. This workflow allows all tasks to be completed within RStudio, provided the supporting documents, software, and packages work correctly.
Of course, I don't propose this workflow as a solution to all issues related to Office products and R. I present this material as a conceptual and functional design that could be used by others with similar ideas. I'm quite happy with this workflow for my personal needs, although I'm sure it could be improved upon. I describe this workflow using the pdf below and provide all supporting files on Github: https://github.com/fawda123/pan_flow.
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To use the workflow, start a new version control project through Git in RStudio, pull the files from the repository, and run the master file. An excellent introduction for using RStudio with Github can be found here. I've also included two excel files that can be used to generate the reports. You can try using each one by changing the name variable in the master file and then running the commands:
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The output .docx file should be different depending on which Excel file you use as input. As the pdf describes, none of this will work if you don't have the required software/packages, i.e., R/RStudio, Strawberry Perl, Pandoc, MS Office, knitr, gdata, etc. Mix up studio create electronic music 3 1 5. You'll also need Git installed if you are pulling the files for local use (again, see here). I'd be interested to hear if anyone finds this useful or any general comments on improvements/suggestions for the workflow.
Cheers,
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To use the workflow, start a new version control project through Git in RStudio, pull the files from the repository, and run the master file. An excellent introduction for using RStudio with Github can be found here. I've also included two excel files that can be used to generate the reports. You can try using each one by changing the name variable in the master file and then running the commands:
Marked 2 really makes fine tuneing markdown documents easy I love writing in Emacs using markdown mode. Just write write write, without putting any significant thought in to formatting the doc, since markdown is so simple to do. When it comes time to render the doc and fine-tune the look, Marked 2 is really helpful for this. The challenge of integrating Microsoft products with R software has been an outstanding issue for several years. Reasons for these issues are complicated and related to fundamental differences in developing proprietary vs open-source products.
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The output .docx file should be different depending on which Excel file you use as input. As the pdf describes, none of this will work if you don't have the required software/packages, i.e., R/RStudio, Strawberry Perl, Pandoc, MS Office, knitr, gdata, etc. Mix up studio create electronic music 3 1 5. You'll also need Git installed if you are pulling the files for local use (again, see here). I'd be interested to hear if anyone finds this useful or any general comments on improvements/suggestions for the workflow.
Cheers,
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