README.md

redoc - reversible R Markdown/MS Word documents.

redoc is an experimental package to enable a two-way R-Markdown ⟷ Microsoft Word workflow. It is in early design phase; I will certainly break things, intentionally and accidentally. Testing and feedback is welcome! Please look at CONTRIBUTING.md, (especially the roadmap) and the design vignette if you are interested in development.

Installation

Install the redoc package with this command:

source("https://install-github.me/noamross/redoc")

Usage

redoc provides an R Markdown output format of rdocx_reversible(), built on top of rmarkdown::word_document(). You will typically call it via the YAML header in your R Markdown document. You have the option of highlighting the outputs (both chunk and inline) in the Word Document.

---
output:
  redoc::rdocx_reversible:
    keep_md: TRUE
    highlight_outputs: TRUE
---

Critic Markup edits will be converted to Word tracked changes. There are a few other formatting options available, too.

Word files that have been created by rdocx_reversible() (“redocs”) can be reverted to .Rmd with undoc(), even after they are edited.

library(redoc)
undoc(redoc_example_docx())
#> [1] "./skeleton.Rmd"

If the Word document has tracked changes, undoc() will, by default, convert these to back to Critic Markup syntax.

Undoc’ing a redoc where chunk outputs have been deleted will restore the original code chunks to the document, usually immediately after the previous chunk. If chunk outputs are moved, code chunks move with them. Inline code outputs that are deleted are not restored - it behooves one to only use inline outputs to print outputs, rather than change the state for upcoming chunks.

Redocs also store the original .Rmd used to make them internally, which can be extracted and used to diff against the original.

redoc_extract_rmd(redoc_example_docx())
#> [1] "./skeleton.original.Rmd"

Contributing

Want have feedback or want to contribute? Great! Please take a look at the contributing guidelines before filing an issue or pull request.

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.