This workshop will be appropriate for attendees who answer yes to these questions:
Have you written or collaborated on a medical manuscript to submit for publication to a peer-reviewed journal?
Have you downloaded and used R? Can you install and load packages?
Have you used R with the RStudio Integrated Development Environment (IDE)?
Can you send R code from a source file (.R, .Rmd) to the console?
Starting with a mock clinical trial dataset, we’ll use R Markdown to combine prose, R code, and figures and tables created with R code into a nicely formatted and reproducible final manuscript.
Participants will learn how to:
Identify the basic anatomy of an R Markdown document.
Make and knit an R Markdown document.
Add text, R code, and output to an R Markdown document.
Change the output format of an R Markdown document.
Use R code to create tables summarizing participants (i.e., a “Table One”) and statistical analyses within an R Markdown document.
Organize files and set up file paths when working in an R Markdown project.
Avoid growing pains as your R Markdown project evolves alongside your research project.
Export your figures and tables to a place you can find on your computer so you can share and re-use them.
Embed figures generated from R code in an R Markdown document, including multi-panel plots.
Control how your figures look using knitr code chunk options, captions, and cross-references.
Use new output formats like powerpoint presentations, conference posters, etc.- all built with R Markdown as the foundation.