To finish up our series on What's New in Inference for R version 3.5, I'd like to go over a new Inference in Word execution option called Execute to Blog Posting. This feature allows you to take any Inference in Word document and generate a results document in the Microsoft Word 2007 Blog Post format. Before we get started, I should mention that this feature is only available in the Office 2007 version of Inference for R. That's because…well…only Microsoft Word 2007 supports direct blogging. Word 2003 users are unfortunately out of luck…

If you're not familiar with blogging from Word, you can read all out setting up, configuring, and posting blogs using Microsoft Word 2007 here:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA102341301033.aspx

Let's take a look at how this actually plays out in Inference in Word. Here's an Inference in Word document that I've created that I would like to post as a blog entry. It's admittedly a contrived example…ok, fine…I modified one of our QuickStart documents. Here it is:

I can then execute this document directly to a Word Blog Posting file from within the Inference Ribbon:

When selected, you will be prompted for where to save the resulting file:

Once the document execution process has completed, you can open your new Blog Post file in Microsoft Word:

You can then edit the document, add your post title, and make any other changes you want. When you're ready to post the blog entry, you use Word's own publish functions:

You'll then be prompted to enter your blog credentials:

…and then Word will upload your blog post (and pictures!) automatically. You can then view the uploaded post in your blog:

Pretty cool, huh? J