I can do reproducible work in R (making me happy) and format the output report in Word (making my collaborators happy). My collaborators, like many folks, use Word and Excel and their work-flows include a lot of point and click, copy and paste, and manual formatting.īut R Markdown (v2) has given me collaboration superpowers!

For my portions of the work, I use R and RStudio and my reports are dynamic and reproducible. Nearly all my professional work is collaborative and nearly all my collaborators are MSOffice users. I assume the reader has RStudio and MSWord installed but otherwise I try not to skip any details. This post is for RStudio users who want to use R Markdown (Rmd) scripts to create Word (docx) documents and would like to improve their control of Word styles and document design.