Author Carpentry at RDA/CODATA DataTrieste2018: Reproducible Research Reporting with Open Authoring Tools

• Instructor: Gail Clement
• Lesson Development: Gail Clement, Tom Morrell, Donna Wrublewski, Robert Doeil, Yuvi Panda

Lesson status: In Development

What you will learn:

• Identify the features of a reproducible and dynamic research report that is fit to enter the scholarly record.
• Describe the benefits of composing research reports with open authoring tools in RStudio.
• Apply an open, text-based workflow for creating a paper that combines dynamic text, code and software.
• Use the Rmarkdown-Knitr-Pandoc workflow to convert openly authored documents for publication, online posting and professional presentation.
• Demonstrate use of the RStudio GUI platform for authoring and producing professional-quality research reports.

Topics:

1. Day 1: Introduction
2. Day 2: Basic Markdown
3. Day 3: Document Appearance
4. Day 4: Dynamic Documents
5. Day 5: Publishing

Requirements

Author Carpentry’s teaching is hands-on, so participants are encouraged to use their own computers to insure the proper setup of tools for an efficient workflow. These lessons assume no prior knowledge of the skills or tools, but working through this lesson requires working copies of R and Rstudio. We’ll work through software installation during the first day.

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