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Describe linking figures in Word documents #117

Closed gvwilson closed 8 years ago

gvwilson commented 8 years ago

From @pipitone: a halfway step to reproducibility is to use links rather than embedding for images, so that the Word doc automatically updates as figures are changed.

pipitone commented 8 years ago

For tables we don't have the same capability of linking, so what we suggested in the workshop was to use R packages (eg stargazer and xtable) to generate the final table from the data and then copy-and-paste from html rendered by the browser (this is also wha stargazer recommends). Not ideal but less error prone than tweaking by hand and easier to transition to rmarkdown/knitr/latex docs.

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beroe commented 8 years ago

This may be a good idea in general but I think it is a bit too specific and esoteric for this particular document...