It takes a little bit of getting used to but is worth the investment. It contains a lot of powerful tools such as debugging the code and can even synchronise with Git.

VS Code - Environment for writing, editing code. In fact, this blog post was written up in MacDown!Ī useful tool for converting Microsoft Word-written pieces into markdown (including links and heading formatting etc) - Paste to Markdown I use MacDown (an open-source markdown editor for macOS) for writing and previewing markdown files. I share my code on Open Science Framework or Github. I haven’t yet gotten to it, but I’m planning to learn to use Binder, so I can share my code in an interactive, reproducible way for each of my studies.įor those who are still wary of writing code for analysis, JASP and Jamovi are great alternatives (with user interface similar to SPSS).

I mostly use RMarkdown, which is great for compiling all your code and results into a PDF that you can then share with your collaborators. Getting Used to R, RStudio, and R Markdown.The resources that I used to get started are: Analysisĭuring my undergraduate and masters I conducted analyses through SPSS, but since starting my PhD I have learned to use R (and RStudio). In fact, many apps are getting silicon-specific updates. The new Apple silicon chip makes this super quick! No problems running multiple programmes and lots of browser tabs. I currently have an Apple M1 Macbook Air 2020. I hope that by having this page, you might also find something useful. Forever impressed by things that makes life easier.ĪIM: To keep track of all the cool things I use and the things I think look cool and might start to use at some point. I am continuously inspired by tech and amazing things. Directly inspired by Alexandra Lautarescu’s blog post (also see amazing blog on Repro2020).

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