Class 9 — Reproducible Reporting

Part II’s capstone — learn your way around the Terminal, install apaquarto, and write up your own pilot study as an APA-style Method/Results draft with every number computed by code.

You collected real data, wrangled it, and plotted it. Today you write it up as the capstone of Part II. You’ll get a short, just-in-time lesson on using RStudio’s Terminal (the prompt, and cd for navigating your directory structure), install the apaquarto extension into your repo’s analysis/ folder with live help in the room, build an APA title page, write inline-code sentences reporting means and SDs directly from your own data, and assemble a Method/Results draft combining your HW3 wrangling and your Class 8 plot. That draft becomes HW5 and, later, the first version of your final project’s report. You won’t have to report any inferential statistics (e.g., t-test, p-value).

Reading due: Quarto: Computations tutorial; apaquarto README · Due the night before (Mon 11/2, 11:59 PM): HW4

What you’ll be able to do

1. Use RStudio’s Terminal deliberately: know that a terminal session is always “in” a folder (the prompt shows which), and move between folders with cd.
2. Install and verify the apaquarto Quarto extension in your repo’s analysis/ folder (quarto add wjschne/apaquarto), including kicking off TinyTeX for PDF output.
3. Explain what apaquarto adds on top of plain Quarto (APA-formatted title page, references, and document structure) and why computing a reported number directly from code, rather than typing it by hand, matters for reproducibility.
4. Set up an apaquarto YAML header for a new document, including author/affiliation fields, and generate an APA-style title page.
5. Insert inline, computed means and SDs into prose text instead of hardcoding numbers.
6. Assemble a Method/Results draft in analysis/ combining your HW3 wrangling output and your Class 8 plot into one rendered apaquarto document.