This tutorial in the context of the Reproducible Research Workshop provides you with the first steps on how to write publications in R. Objectives of this tutorial: Installation and setup of R, RStudio and Miktex Load a template project to RStudio (or fork it from GitHub, see part 4 of the Git with RStudio tutorial) Generate an example report as an HTML, Word or $\LaTeX$ (Latex) document Generate a sample publication Prepare a publication for use in Overleaf Motivation Wouldn’t it be great to combine analysis, data, results, plots, bibliography and text all together and later on regenerate a report or publication with the click of one button?