#papaja — Public Fediverse posts

@wjoelschneider @coatless And I did not intend to imply that toes had been stepped on. Apologies! I've always been very thankful to @FrederikAust for his work on the #papaja package. And although I haven't used it properly yet, I'm thankful to you for apaquarto as well. Anyone who develops open source software for the benefit of the research community is a hero, imo. I'm looking forward to giving apaquarto a proper spin. I know I'm slowly moving in that direction, I've just stuck with what I already know works when I've been under time pressure, so far. Good to hear it plays well with papaja helper functions!

@coatless UI elements to set chunk options is one of the reasons. Three or four times after first learning of #Quarto, I’ve started a new research paper project. Each time, I’ve thought that this time I’m switching to Quarto. And each time I’ve ended up doing it in #RMarkdown with the #papaja package anyway, like I’m used to. A few times I have given up because I couldn’t (immediately) figure out how to use/switch to/implement an APA template, and I felt like I didn’t have time to spare to figure it out, so I switched back to what I knew and got along with analyses and writing. One time I got the template running, although I remember I didn’t quite understand what I did or how it worked. I just noticed that it did after copy/pasting some files to the folder I was working in. But then I switched to #RMarkdown and #papaja anyway after a while because I missed some of the functions of the papaja package, other than the template. So all this boils down to inertia for me as well, I suppose. I just submitted a paper written in papaja again, last week. But the next one I’ll write in Quarto, definitely. Maybe.

I (think I) would like to write my article based #PhD #thesis in #rstudio. The finished articles are written with #RMarkdown and #papaja, so I’m sort of used to the format, but now I need to write a compilation or synopsis. I’ve heard of the #bookdown package, but I’m also looking at finally going #quarto. Any advice? Packages, or tips and tricks? #rstats

@jimgar @ereinbergs Maybe #papaja https://github.com/crsh/papaja or apa https://search.r-project.org/CRAN/refmans/apa/html/apa.html could be useful

@DrSundar Sorry, only here to see what replies you get. I’ve mostly been using #stargazer as part of a #papaja workflow, but then I’ve never got tables when knitting word files. I’ve normally ended up mailing my coauthors both PDF and word of the same draft, writing “please see the PDF for tables, and comment/edit the word file”.

@mortenfrisch You can write the entire paper (text, citations, code and all) as one reproducible document with RStudio, git, GitHub and #zotero. If you want APA-style you can use Rmarkdown and the excellent #papaja package. Quarto is possible as well. Can’t remember the name/source of the apa7 quarto template, but can dig it up if you want. As others mention this takes some discipline and willingness to learn by all involved.

German speakers, @ZPID has published a video recording of my #papaja workshop for the series "Practices and Tools of Open Science":

https://leibniz-psychology.org/ptos/r-markdown-papaja/

Materials are in English:

https://frederikaust.com/papaja-workshop/

Use this PsychNotebooks to jump in:

https://www.psychnotebook.org/workspaces/danis-digik-lagim-kavid

If you can follow along in German, @zpid has published a video recording (~1:40:00) of my papaja workshop for the lecture series "Practices and Tools of Open Science":

https://leibniz-psychology.org/ptos/r-markdown-papaja/

All materials are in English:

https://frederikaust.com/papaja-workshop/

There is a PsychNotebooks container to get you started right away, no installations required:

https://www.psychnotebook.org/workspaces/danis-digik-lagim-kavid

#OpenScience #RMarkdown #Rstats #reproducibility #papaja

@agata I was almost hoping someone would ask, so I got the opportunity to mention it. 😆 I've been a fan of #papaja for a few years, and I have one published paper written in it's entirety with the package. I highly recommend it. But I also understand the future is #quarto, not #Rmarkdown. Best of luck! If you are able to share experiences with the APA template, it would be much appreciated.

@Drmowinckels I know I will! Concerning the question someone asked about an #APA template for #quarto , some work has been initiated here, by @FrederikAust, author of the awesome #papaja package: https://github.com/crsh/qapaja

A question for other #rstats people writing papers with #quarto #rmarkdown #papaja : Coauthors fluent in #git and #github is gold, but there’s always need to get input from someone who requires a word document: supervisors, a language service, a friendly review… What are solutions for merging changes that is not a PR? I’m currently at «manually copy/pasting changes sentence by sentence back into the rmd document». Anything even slightly more efficient would be very welcome! #phd #psych #research

#papaja, #rstats and #knitr people: Can you change line spacing and font when knitting to PDF? Been collaborating on a paper, and we've knitted to PDF by default. Ended up just below 40 pages - perfect! But a submission deadline is nearing, and we needed a word version. Turns out it is at 45 pages! Done side-by side comp. Seems the PDF is not Times New Roman. Also, line spacing is different. We get around 27 lines on a PDF page, but 24 in the Word version. Ideas? @FrederikAust

Is there a way to use the built in #rstudio citation tool in source mode? I can only access it from visual mode, and it’s impractical to switch back and forth while writing, for several reasons. I prefer to write papers in source mode with the #papaja package, and although I love the new citation tool I miss #citr for this reason. Does anyone know if there’s a workaround or something? #rstats @Posit @FrederikAust

Some days ago I saw a thread on twitter where people mentioned their favourite "non-obvious" #rstats package (like, not #ggplot or #dplyr). Can't find the original tweet and can't remember who it was, sorry. But anyway, I'll try to kick off the mastodon equivalent: Mine is #papaja, by @FrederikAust and Marius Barth. Once I tried it it has become impossible to write articles in any other way. 🤓 https://github.com/crsh/papaja What’s yours? #psych #phd

just want to reaffirm that our lab stans (is that how you slang?) #papaja and is ever grateful to @FrederikAust , e.g. below

For computationally reproducible analyses, give https://www.psychnotebook.org/ a try!

Setting up a container (including RStudio/JupyterLab, R packages, and system libraries) is super easy and it will be ready to go in an instant (looking at you Binder...).

If you install #papaja, the LaTeX requirements are included automatically. It's really slick and completely free; run by the Leibniz Institute for Psychology.

I'm not sure what the computational resources are, but this is a potential game changer.

Has anyone tried writing an article in #quarto and then using a word template to create a word document that aligns with #apa style? Although I love the #papaja package in #rmarkdown to write manuscripts, i feel that I run into fewer compiling errors with quarto manuscripts. #AcaWriter #rstudio #psychology