When producing so called infographics, it is rather common to use images rather than a mere grid as background. In this blog post, I will show how to use a background image with ggplot2. Packages required The following code will install load and / or install the R packages required for ... [Read more...]

R Markdown is a great tool to make research results reproducible. However, in scientific research papers or reports, tables and figures usually need to be numbered and referenced. Unfortunately, R Markdown has no “native” method to number and reference table and figure captions. The recently published bookdown package makes it ... [Read more...]

In research, we usually publish the most important findings in tables and figures. When writing research papers using Rmarkdown (*.Rmd), we have several options to format the output of the final MS Word document (.docx). Tables can be formated using either the knitr package’s kable() function or several functions ... [Read more...]

RStudio offers the opportunity to build MS Word documents from R Markdown files (.Rmd). However, since formatting options in Markdown are very limited, there is no ‘native’ Markdown code to insert page breaks in the final MS Word output file. In this blog post I explain, how to define page ... [Read more...]

According to Wikipedia, propensity score matching (PSM) is a “statistical matching technique that attempts to estimate the effect of a treatment, policy, or other intervention by accounting for the covariates that predict receiving the treatment”. In a broader sense, propensity score analysis assumes that an unbiased comparison between samples can ... [Read more...]