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Tag: reproducible research

Learn Markdown – Episode 6. Convert Word to Markdown with pandoc

Summary Pandoc is a document converter for multiple type of files. Converting example Format conversion is a chore that often takes a lot of time. I recently wanted to convert a long MSWord document into a version of Markdown that I could use to update a software documentation. Pandoc can convert many documents types into …

Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown – Episode 4. Reproducible reports

The message The essential message is this: stop using Copy/Paste from one program to another (e.g. a chart from Excel to Word) as this is a manual process that is not reproducible and can easily get out of sync if new data need to be incorporated and the report reconstructed anew. The solution is to …