“ Nature and the Nature research journals will introduce editorial measures to address the problem by improving the consistency and quality of reporting in life-sciences articles… we will give more space to methods sections.The Journal Nature on the issue of reproducibility: 3.A reproducibility study in psychology found that only 39 of 100 studies could be reproduced.Scientists in the United States spend $28 billion each year on basic biomedical research that cannot be repeated successfully.Science is plagued by reproducibility problems. (0 seconds) No need to look now, but don’t forget that the course help page has some useful resources on Markdown+RMarkdown.Finally, browse through the RMarkdown Gallery. Continue reading through each section here on the navigation bar to the left ( Introduction through Cheatsheets, and optionally download and print out the cheat sheet). Click “Getting Started” and watch the 1 minute video on the Introduction page. (10 minutes) See RStudio’s excellent documentation on Rmarkdown at.

Write a simple markdown document, and export it to HTML and/or PDF. (5-10 minutes) Go to, an in-browser Markdown editor, and play around.(5-10 minutes) Run through this 10-minute in-browser markdown tutorial.(1 minute) Bookmark and refer to this markdown reference.(30 seconds) Read the summary paragraph on the Wikipedia page.The resulting text file can be rendered into many downstream formats, like PDF (for printing) or HTML (websites). All you really need to know is that Markdown is a lightweight markup language that lets you create styled text (like bold, italics, links, etc.) using a very lightweight plain-text syntax: (like **bold**, _italics_, (), etc.). Prior to class, spend a few minutes to learn a little bit about Markdown.

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