rtfSweave-package: The rtfSweave Package

In rtfSweave: An Sweave Driver to Process Files with R Code and RTF Text

The rtfSweave Package

Description

This package provides an add-on driver to enable Sweave to process documents with R code chunks and RTF documentation chunks.

Details

RTF documents are plain text documents that have some similarities to LaTeX. For one thing, RTF documents can be opened and edited using Emacs or another text editor. While the RTF files written by Microsoft Word are difficult to read, without loss of functionality one can write very human-readable RTF documents which can be opened in Microsoft Word. One can write RTF documents with headings, subheadings, headers, footers, complex tables, figures, etc. It may be helpful to think of RTF as a text-based interface to nearly all of Microsoft Word's functionality.

My motivation for creating an RTF driver for Sweave was that my non-statistician colleagues, collaborators, and clients almost exclusively use Microsoft Word. Rather than converting a LaTeX report created with Sweave to RTF, it is arguably simpler to write the document in RTF directly, and use Sweave to create the final report which can be sent to colleagues as is or after saving in a native Microsoft Word format (e.g., *.doc or *.docx.

Author(s)

Stephen Weigand [e-mail]

rtfSweave documentation built on June 21, 2022, 3:01 p.m.