ABSTRACT

Learning how to dynamically connect statistical results with tables in students’ presentation documents aids reproducibility and can ultimately save student a lot of time. Manually typing results into tables by hand is tedious, not very reproducible, and can introduce errors. It’s especially tedious to retype tables to reflect changes they made to their data and models. Fortunately, they don’t actually need to create tables by hand. Automating table creation removes the possibility of adding errors to the presentation of their analyses by incorrectly copying output, a big potential problem in hand-created tables. Tables in LaTeX are usually embedded in two environments: the table and tabular environments. A LaTeX environment is a part of the markup where special commands are executed. A simple environment is the center environment. The tabular environment allows they to create tables in LaTeX. The TABLE_SPEC argument allows they to specify the number of columns in a table and the alignment of text in each column.