Workshop: Writing Manuscripts in R using LaTeX, R Markdown, and papaja

This repository contains the materials for the workshop Writing Manuscripts in R using LaTeX, R Markdown, and papaja.

The workshop consists of three parts:

• Introduction to $\LaTeX{}$
• Introduction to R Markdown
• Writing scientific articles with the papaja package

The Materials

The slides are in .html format and can be found in the corresponding folders. The best way to make sure you have everything is to download this whole github repository by clicking on the green Code button and then on Download ZIP:

Packages needed

The following code can be used to install the packages used in this workshop:

wanted.packages <- c("tidyverse","ggplot2","devtools","parameters","gganimate","plotly","kableExtra",
"DT","correlation","corx","palmerpenguins")
  
# Check what packages need to be installed
new.packages <- wanted.packages[!(wanted.packages %in% installed.packages()[,"Package"])]
  
 # install the not yet installed but required packages and load them
if(length(new.packages)) install.packages(new.packages,dependencies = TRUE)
sapply(wanted.packages, require, character.only = TRUE)

Also to be installed:

For the second part of the workshop, you also need to install the papaja-package and a TeX distribution (e.g., MikTeX for Windows, MacTeX for Mac, or TeX Live for Linux) to create .pdf documents.

If you did install LaTeX before or already created some .pdf documents with R Markdown, you are good to go. If you have not installed LaTeX before, I recommend installing TinyTeX (https://yihui.name/tinytex/), which is a light and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution for R Markdown.

TinyTex can be installed from within R as follows.

if(!"tinytex" %in% rownames(installed.packages())) install.packages("tinytex")

tinytex::install_tinytex()

The papaja- package then can be installed via

# Install devtools package if necessary
if(!"devtools" %in% rownames(installed.packages())) install.packages("devtools")

# Install the stable development verions from GitHub
devtools::install_github("crsh/papaja")

For LaTeX: Register @Overleaf

Please register an account at https://www.overleaf.com/, which we will use in the $\LaTeX{}$ part

Note: The workshop is based on R Version 4.2.0