Minimum Information about Data AnalysiS: Authoring Tool in Rmarkdown Here are the instructions to use this R Markdown authoring template.

1. Go to the GitHub repository: https://github.com/lizzy1978/MIDAS
2. Click the “clone or download” button on the right hand side of the page and download the folder as a zip file.
3. Download latest version of R Studio if you do not have it.
4. Open the folder and open the MIDAS.rmd file in R studio.
5. Start editing and writing the report of your data analysis guided by the questions in green directly inside the MIDAS.rmd file.
6. After the pretreatment, univariate analysis, unsupervised analysis and supervised analysis sections have been completed the next section is to produce workflow diagrams.
7. Follow the instructions in green to produce a workflow diagram of pretreatment steps.
8. Click on the knit button and knit to HTML to see how the generated report looks.
9. Knit to PDF or Word to render the report to a pdf or word document as you wish.
10. PDF and Word reports will not contain the diagrams so these need to be saved in the viewer pane as an image (JPG /BMP etc) to your local folder
11. Insert the workflow diagrams into your Word or PDF report that you have saved to your local folder.
12. Render the document to HTML and workflow diagrams will be included anyway.