Class 11 — Reproducible Reporting (apaquarto)

Turn your console results into a written APA-style report — set up apaquarto and insert computed values directly into prose so your numbers can never go stale.

PART III · CLASS 11

Your statistical result from Class 10 stops living in a console and starts living in a written document today. Using apaquarto, a Quarto extension for APA-style reporting, you’ll build an APA title page, learn to insert computed R values directly into prose instead of typing numbers by hand, and assemble a short Methods/Results section combining your HW4 wrangling, your Class 8 plot, and your Class 10 test result — the first working draft of your final project report.

Reading due: Quarto docs; apaquarto README · Due today: —

What you’ll be able to do

1. 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.
2. Set up an apaquarto YAML header for a new document, including author/affiliation fields, and generate an APA-style title page.
3. Insert inline, computed R values into prose text (e.g., referencing a stored t.test() result’s statistic or p-value directly in a sentence) instead of hardcoding numbers.
4. Assemble your own mini Methods/Results section combining your HW4 wrangling output, your Class 8 plot, and your Class 10 test result into one rendered apaquarto document.
5. Diagnose and self-resolve at least one common apaquarto/Quarto PDF-rendering issue.