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| Saturday, February 17 | ||
| T4 Tools for Connecting R, SAs, and Stata to Word: A Practical Approach to Reproducibility |
Sat, Feb 17, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Salon D |
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| Instructor(s): Abigail S. Baldridge, Northwestern University; Leah J. Welty, Northwestern University | ||
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Reproducibility, wherein data analysis and documentation is sufficient so that results can be recomputed or verified, is an increasingly important component of statistical practice. “Weaving” tools such as R Markdown facilitate reproducibility by combining narrative text and analysis code in one plain-text document, but are of limited use when manuscripts or reports must be generated in MS Word (e.g. due to journal requirements or client preference). This course will: (1) summarize how weaving tools create Word documents, and the ensuing limitations; and (2) introduce an alternate approach using recently released StatTag software. StatTag is a free, open-source program that embeds results (values, tables, figures, or verbatim output) from R, SAS, or Stata directly in Word such that they can be automatically updated if code or data changes. This course is intended for a broad audience; prerequisites are experience preparing documents in Word and conducting analysis in any one of R, SAS, or Stata. The workshop will provide practical, hands-on examples drawn from R, SAS, and Stata, and will include an overview of weaving approaches as well as an introduction to StatTag.
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