racking, and with R code (R Markdown in RStudio is fantastic!). As a Mac OS user, I find Microsoft Office products to be annoying and temperamental. I read Karthik Ram's great post on how to <a href="http://inundata.org/2012/12/04/how-to-ditch-word/">ditch MS Word</a> a while back and since I've been using Markdown for so much lately, it seemed like a good time to write my first scientific paper with it. I'm going to use this post, written in Markdown, to outline my process. This will help me repeat the pro