add some tips about rstudio

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 | [[file:meetings.org][Meetings]] |
 | [[file:planning.org][Planning]] |
+| [[file:rstudio-tips.org][RStudio tips]] | 
 
 * About novelty
 Doing a master's project is similar to doing a PhD but whereas a PhD dissertation is required to be novel, a master's dissertation is definitely not required to involve a novel element.

rstudio-tips.org

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+#+title: Tips for using RStudio to produce your dissertation
+
+If you are using RStudio, here are some tips that might help make your report look great.
+
+* Number sections
+By default, RStudio / pandoc does not number section headings. 
+To fix this, in the YAML header, use something like:
+#+BEGIN_SRC
+---
+...
+output: 
+  pdf_document:
+    number_sections: true
+---
+#+END_SRC
+This should automatically number your sections.
+
+* Selecting the LaTeX class
+I personally prefer the KOMA report class over the LaTeX default. 
+#+BEGIN_SRC
+---
+...
+documentclass: scrreprt
+...
+---
+#+END_SRC
+
+* Citations
+The first thing to know is that to cite a paper with RMarkdown, you need to use the =@= [[https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#citation-syntax][citation syntax]].
+The thing after =@= is the citation key. 
+Note that you either put the citation in square brackets (for parenthetical citations) or put it without brackets when you want to refer directly to something that the authors did.
+For example, if we have a paper with key =Krizhevsky2012=, we might refer to it as, "The ImageNet classification problem has been examined using DCNNs =[@Krizhevsky2012]=".
+In this case, we use square brackets so that the citation is formatted with parentheses.
+Alternatively, we can put the authors as actors by saying, "=@Krizhevsky2012= applied DCNNs to ImageNet". 
+
+There's great information on using Zotero with RStudio [[https://christopherjunk.netlify.app/blog/2019/02/25/zotero-rmarkdown/][online]].
+You will probably need to install the Better BibTex add-in for Zotero.
+I also recommend the Chrome extension for capturing papers to your Zotero library.
+
+Don't forget to use Better BibTex to export your bibliography to a =bib= file and refer to it in your document
+#+BEGIN_SRC
+---
+...
+bibliography: "zotero-export.bib"
+...
+---
+#+END_SRC
+