[metalang]

I have had to do it multiple times for every paper I’ve published. I do health economics research, which involves a lot of collaboration with physicians and people from other less quantitative fields (eg public health, implementation science, communications / media). From my experience those collaborators are unwilling to look at results until they look “finished” (ie are in the format that the target journal requires) and are part of a Word document that includes the working draft of the paper. Since they want to use Track Changes as version control, I can’t simply generate the tables again as a Word document and end up having to copy and paste them in, which is a huge time suck and runs the risk of making errors.

[kzardar]

What are your thoughts on using Google Docs to prototype this? Correct me if I'm wrong in my logic. You're looking for a way to link end results of your analysis to a 'Word' document that will auto-populate with each re-run. The physicians etc. want a 'clean' manuscript that mimics graphs in the format of the preferred paper + has version control.