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Statistics in R
Download and install the latest version of R and RStudio

– Basic R tutorial
– Linear models and linear mixed effects models: tutorial 1
– Linear mixed effects analyses: tutorial 2

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Scientific writing
– Commonly used phrasal elements in academic English
– Oxford dictionaries for grammar and meaning of words

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Google Docs add-ons
– Paperpile adds citations and bibliographies flawlessly
– SetImageSize controls the width and height of images
– Better word count reports the correct word count

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Reference manager
Mendeley is a free reference manager that combines the pdf’s of research papers, with tools for annotation. The account is synchronized online, so that you can continue to work anywhere you want, with the device you want

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Literature
This website might help you out if you cannot find an article. Just type the title in the search box and it should pop up immediately – try “The dark adaptation of retinal fields of different size and location”. If it displays that the search is unavailable, then the article could not be found (but the site still worked). Error while loading the website? Try (1), (2), (3), (4), (5) or (6)

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Graphs in R

R consists of some basic tools that can be extended with a large amount of packages. There are many tutorials on the internet that show how to use R to make graphs. However, syntaxes that produce high resolution publication ready graphs are harder to find. This page provides you with some examples of just that. First, you need a quick preparation to install the necessary programs and packages in order to let our syntax do it’s work. After that, click on a figure for further instructions.

R Graphs – Preparation (∼10 minutes)

More information on R and how to structure your data can be found in this tutorial (“Datafile preparation”) .
More information on saving into other file types than .tiff can be found on this page.
The provided datasets are not real research outcomes. 

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