Many don’t believe that making the switch could save them time in the long run, and frankly why should they? All they have are your anecdotes. ![]() Everyone in the small-but-rapidly-growing niche I have just described either has or will become frustrated by the fact that you lose many of the time-saving features of writing in R when collaborators will not accommodate your (would-be) workflow. Some have tried it and turned back some have been considering it, and some have just heard about it on Twitter and made a note to look into it more closely when they have time. Many younger scientists, including myself, have oriented their habits around the efficiency, transparency, and reproducibility of consolidating analysis and writing into an R Markdown workflow. The same cannot be said for those who have a routine that has worked just fine for them for years. In other words, it’s easy for someone like me, a graduate student, to pick up new habits, because being the squalidly grad student I am, I could be said to have established few of my own. Given that R provides a process for streamlining your analysis and writing from front to back, and can even be used to create online surveys, why do scientists use anything but R? The answer can be summarized in two words: Old Guard. It even has an as-you-write pop-up window that pulls references from Zotero - even the Wordiest Word Users That Ever Worded have to admit how bad ass of a feature that is. To sweeten the pot even more, R Markdown just received a new upgrade adding point-and-click functionality to most of the core features writers need, including inserting comments, formatting text, creating headings, and inserting cross-references, effectively removing the need to know any coding to get access to R Markdown’s flexibility, transparency, and reproducibility. You simply plug in your info (author names, title, abstract, etc.) and baddo-boom badda-bing you got yourself an APA manuscript ready for submission. With the papaja (Preparing APA Journal Articles) package, for example, all formatting is automated, including in-text statistics, tables, and references. If indeed you are a scientist who writes, you have probably been as frustrated as I have with how tedious that stuff can be, especially formatting tables.Īt the time of this particular writing, it’s been two years since I felt the euphoria of discovering that you can write manuscripts in R using R Markdown. ![]() We format a lot too, because our journals have scrupulous formatting requirements.
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