I've come across Rmd files, but it's on my list of things to learn in the future (along with parallel processing, what the jobs pane does, and R Project files). How would it help? Not being familiar with how they work, I don't see how a report format would help? And it would also be another way of, for lack of a better word, hacking an output (to have to switch to), rather than getting R to do something directly? If it will work as a stopgap I guess that would suffice, though would be far from ideal.