Chapter 3 Getting Started in the Research Group

There’s a lot happening as you start your graduate degree. To make things easier for everyone, I will (force) the research group to use the following tools:

1. Microsoft Outlook for the calendar functionality*
2. Slack for project and general intralab communications (as opposed to email)
3. Github for version control and code storage

• you’re free to use any other mail/calendar app! My one request is that you find one that can sync with my Outlook calendar so you can see my availability for meetings

I will highly recommend the following tools for ease of consistency (and general bad experiences with competing products), but you are more than welcome to use an alternative.

1. Microsoft Word for manuscript writing
2. Zotero for reference management (we have a lab account; integrates with Word or Google Docs)

You can add parts to organize one or more book chapters together. Parts can be inserted at the top of an .Rmd file, before the first-level chapter heading in that same file.

Add a numbered part: # (PART) Act one {-} (followed by # A chapter)

Add an unnumbered part: # (PART\*) Act one {-} (followed by # A chapter)

Add an appendix as a special kind of un-numbered part: # (APPENDIX) Other stuff {-} (followed by # A chapter). Chapters in an appendix are prepended with letters instead of numbers.