Creating reproducible reports and journal articles using RMarkdown

When writing a report based on data, one usually has to rely on copying and pasting figures and results between a statistical programming environment of choice (of course, we prefer R) and a document editor. This is no longer necessary, thanks to integrated documents that can process data, generate figures, and produce text.
After discussing the basics and reasoning of RMarkdown, we will go through a working example of writing a paper or report, including formatting it in the infamous APA style. We'll then talk about best practices, advantages, and disadvantages of writing integrated papers.

Update: Here are some instructions if you want to create an RMarkdown document during the meetup:

• Install RStudio. That's it for the basics.

• To create an APA style article, then follow the instructions here: https://github.com/crsh/papaja

All materials and slides will be posted on github after the meetup and the link will be shared in the comments, as usual.