This work was completed with the following R packages: datawizard v. 1.2.0 (Patil et al., 2022), grateful v. 0.2.12 (Rodriguez-Sanchez & Jackson, 2024), palmerpenguins v. 0.1.1 (Horst et al., 2020), quarto v. 1.4.4 (Allaire & Dervieux, 2024), renv v. 1.1.4 (Ushey & Wickham, 2025), rmarkdown v. 2.29 (Allaire et al., 2024; Xie et al., 2018, 2020), sessioninfo v. 1.2.3 (Wickham et al., 2025), withr v. 3.0.2 (Hester et al., 2024).
About
Florian Kohrt 
Josephine Zerna
Christoph Scheffel
Felix SchΓΆnbrodt
This tutorial was created by Florian Kohrt. It is based on previous work by Josephine Zerna and Christoph Scheffel. Comments on earlier versions were kindly provided by Malika Ihle, Florian Pargent, Jonas Hagenberg, Felix SchΓΆnbrodt, and Sarah von Grebmer zu Wolfsthurn. Felix SchΓΆnbrodt created this short version of the longer original tutorial.
Utilized Software
Quarto 1.7.32 was utilized to render the files.
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version R version 4.5.1 (2025-06-13)
os Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
system x86_64, linux-gnu
ui X11
language (EN)
collate C.UTF-8
ctype C.UTF-8
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date 2025-07-20
pandoc 3.6.3 @ /opt/quarto/bin/tools/ (via rmarkdown)
quarto 1.7.32 @ /usr/local/bin/quarto
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P cli 3.6.5 2025-04-23 [?] CRAN (R 4.5.1)
P digest 0.6.37 2024-08-19 [?] CRAN (R 4.5.1)
P evaluate 1.0.4 2025-06-18 [?] CRAN (R 4.5.1)
P fastmap 1.2.0 2024-05-15 [?] CRAN (R 4.5.1)
P grateful 0.2.12 2025-04-30 [?] CRAN (R 4.5.1)
P htmltools 0.5.8.1 2024-04-04 [?] CRAN (R 4.5.1)
P jsonlite 2.0.0 2025-03-27 [?] CRAN (R 4.5.1)
P knitr 1.50 2025-03-16 [?] CRAN (R 4.5.1)
P later 1.4.2 2025-04-08 [?] CRAN (R 4.5.1)
P processx 3.8.6 2025-02-21 [?] CRAN (R 4.5.1)
P ps 1.9.1 2025-04-12 [?] CRAN (R 4.5.1)
P quarto * 1.4.4 2024-07-20 [?] CRAN (R 4.5.1)
P Rcpp 1.1.0 2025-07-02 [?] CRAN (R 4.5.1)
P renv 1.1.4 2025-03-20 [?] CRAN (R 4.5.1)
P rlang 1.1.6 2025-04-11 [?] CRAN (R 4.5.1)
P rmarkdown 2.29 2024-11-04 [?] CRAN (R 4.5.1)
P rstudioapi 0.17.1 2024-10-22 [?] CRAN (R 4.5.1)
P sessioninfo 1.2.3 2025-02-05 [?] CRAN (R 4.5.1)
P withr 3.0.2 2024-10-28 [?] CRAN (R 4.5.1)
P xfun 0.52 2025-04-02 [?] CRAN (R 4.5.1)
P yaml 2.3.10 2024-07-26 [?] CRAN (R 4.5.1)
[1] /home/runner/work/code-publishing-short/code-publishing-short/renv/library/linux-ubuntu-noble/R-4.5/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
[2] /home/runner/.cache/R/renv/sandbox/linux-ubuntu-noble/R-4.5/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/179fe56a
* ββ Packages attached to the search path.
P ββ Loaded and on-disk path mismatch.
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None of the discussion in this tutorial constitutes legal advice.
Except where noted otherwise, the narrative text in this tutorial is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; the code without any narrative text is also (at your option) available under CC0 1.0.
The files Manuscript.qmd and Bibliography.bib are made available by Josephine Zerna and Christoph Scheffel under CC0 1.0.
The screenshots of the RStudio IDE are Copyright (C) 2024 Posit PBC and are available under the GNU Affero General Public License v3. The source code is available on GitHub.
Funding
This work was partly funded by the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS), managed by the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA).
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