3 frameworks into one — Write your next paper with R Studio!

Finn-Ole Höner

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Jun 6, 2022

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I published an earlier version of this post on my personal data science blog, ds-econ.com.

Here, I will show you my current workflow to writing research papers in my studies. This is an approach to come up with a coherent and simple setup, which weaves together the literature and data related aspects of a project.
In more detail, this approach tries to interconnect the initial literature review and note-taking (Notion), the collection of references (Zotero) and all the necessary data analysis and writing (R Studio). We combine these three threads with the helps of R Markdown and bookdown into a research paper and presentation slides.

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R-Studio

R integrates seamlessly with the writing process thanks to R Markdown, knitrand bookdown and makes writing your paper more coherent and more efficient.

Let’s consider a typical issue in the process: In your final proofread, you discover that you have a typo in the x-axis label of your most important plot. If you are writing your paper in “Word” and use a software package for your analysis (e.g., R, Stata, SPSS, Matlab …), you face some painful steps:

1. Re-run your analysis script
2. Adjust your plot’s code
3. Export the new (hopefully correct) plot as…