Workflow for publications using Rmarkdown with users that won't get passed Word/Google docs

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This is a specific issue related to #27 (and somewhat to #22). How to to successfully and painlessly collaborate in a publication workflow using Rmarkdown with researchers (or others) that are not interested at all in getting passed Google docs.

I have no idea how to tackle this. I know this is something I would use a lot.

There is some discussion and ideas in this thread: https://twitter.com/CMastication/status/942151771627155457

And a deeper discussion here: https://community.rstudio.com/t/publishing-rmarkdown-to-google-docs/832 where @jennybc says "The problem we ran into is that compiling .Rmd to Google Doc is not that hard. But for the whole workflow to truly be useful, you then want to go the other direction. And that is really hard." Wondering if this got any easier since last time this was discussed.

FWIW, my 2 cents for the 2018 unconf :slightly_smiling_face: