Friends don’t let friends copy-paste: How to create computationally reproducible APA-style manuscripts with the R package papaja

Friday, 21 April 2023

Time: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm

An R Markdown workshop with the creator of the papaja-package himself, Dr. Frederik Aust (https://frederikaust.com/papaja-workshop/).

When reporting quantitative results, psychologists routinely engage in copy-paste reporting: Statistical results are copied from the output of an analysis software and pasted into a word processor. Copy-paste reporting is tedious. If the analytic approach changes during manuscript preparation or revision, copy-pasting starts anew. More importantly, copy-paste reporting is error-prone: A substantial number of published journal articles report inconsistent statistics (e.g., Brown & Heathers, 2016; Nuijten et al., 2016; Petrocelli, Clarkson, Whitmire, & Moon, 2013). Moreover, even with the original data in hand, reported results are often difficult and sometimes impossible to reproduce (e.g., Artner et al., 2020; Eubank, 2016; Naudet et al., 2018; Stodden, Seiler, & Ma, 2018; Vilhuber, 2020). Dynamic documents are a time-saving, fault-preventing alternative to copy-paste reporting. By fusing manuscript and analysis scripts, dynamic documents automate reporting of results, ensure that the reported statistics are consistent, and facilitate documentation and reproduction of analyses. Through a combination of lectures and exercises, this workshop introduces the R package papaja, which is designed to create dynamic, submission-ready, APA-style manuscripts and revision letters.