This workshop will introduce participants to the fundamentals and applications of R Markdown — a relatively new document type to analyse data and communicate results, in a reproducible and efficient manner.

Although one can produce various outputs with R Markdown, such as presentations and websites, here we will focus on what it offers for the process of writing research papers. By combining code, text, and resultsin a single document, Rmarkdown allows automation of otherwise manual — therefore tedious, costly to repeat, and error-prone — steps in writing research papers: creating tables and figures, updating themas the data and/or analyses change, keeping track of all these changes, switching between different output formats (e.g., Word or PDF), and more.

Therefore, those interested in writing research-based papers, from essays to journal articles, are likely tobenefit from this course.