In the spirit of #EpiWritingChallenge, I thought I'd share some elements of my writing workflow in Rstudio and R Markdown. I'm changing this all the time and would love to hear about yours! You can find this example on my GH here: github.com/malcolmbarrett… #rstats 1/8
The best thing about markdown is the way you can intermingle text with code, but I often find I need to focus on the words. The first step for me is to zoom to the the source pane using ctrl-shift-1 #rstats 2/8
Then, I collapse everything using the fold fall keyboard shortcut, which is opt+cmd+o on Mac and alt+o on Windows. I only unfold the section I want to work on and focus on that #rstats 3/8
A killer feature of R Markdown is the way it formats citations. To use it, you need a .bib file for references and .csl file for journal formats. You can export .bib files from Zotero or other software. Put the file in the YAML as `bibliography: myfile.bib` #rstats 4/8 
There's a repo of csl files for many different journals here: github.com/citation-style…. You can also use the @rOpenSci seasl package github.com/ropenscilabs/s…. Use `get_styles()` to download them, then add the csl file to YAML: csl: "`r seasl::styles('my-journal')`"
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When you have your .bib and .csl files set up, the citr package makes it easy to search and insert citations with an add-in app. I set my keyboard shortcut to launch the citr app with cmd+R #rstats 6/8
One of the benefits of using seasl is that you can easily change the journal to match the citation formatting style you need *cough*submitting somewhere else*cough*. #rstats 7/8
Other things that I've found useful in this workflow is to use the Zotero Chrome extension with a Google Scholar shortcut while logged in to my university library. You can find a nice walkthrough on that here: github.com/bbest/rmarkdow… #rstats 8/8
If you have Better BibTeX for Zotero installed (retorque.re/zotero-better-…), citr will automatically assemble your bib file for you as `references.bib`, so you don't need to export it! Thanks @AuthorCarpentry and @adam42smith!
