Shivani

ALT SORTEE Workshop Series: Authoring documents, websites, and more with RMarkdown for transparency and reproducibility. Organiser: Alexa Fredston Topic: Using Markdown, including from R, to generate well-formatted and easily readable notes, slides, reports, manuscripts, web pages, PDFs, etc. from code. Objective 1: Understand Markdown and how it can be applied to generate visually appealing materials. 2: Build Markdown files with multiple content types (text, plots, images, etc). 3: Explore Markdown applications to various use cases." Outline: This workshop will be organized with a combination of short lectures by Alexa (live over video stream), and breakout groups where participants will work through pre-written tutorials. During these breakout groups Alexa will move between rooms to answer questions. The workshop will use the RStudio software and the rmarkdown package, so participants should have that installed in advance.