Open Peer Review Any reports and responses or comments on the article can be found at the end of the article. SOFTWARE TOOL ARTICLE Towards reproducible research: From data analysis (in R) to a typeset laboratory notebook (as .pdf) using the text editor Emacs with the 'mp' package [version 1; peer review: 2 not approved] Christopher Dardis , Eric C Woolf , Adrienne C Scheck 2 Department of Neurology, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA Neuro-Oncology Research, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA Abstract Much scientific research makes use of commonly available ’office’ software. While numerous more fully-featured open-source alternatives exist, the integration of diverse tools and platforms which their use often entails can be challenging. The mp package for Emacs aims to bring together a number of these elements with the goal of simplifying the process of converting an .R file, as used for data analysis, to a nicely formatted .pdf which includes the complete description of an experiment. We discuss the rationale for development of the package and illustrate its applications and options with a series of experiments from our laboratory. Keywords latex , R , knitr , emacs , reproducible research , beta-hydroxybutyrate , melanoma , brain metastases 1 2 2 1 2 Reviewer Status Invited Reviewers version 2 published 30 Mar 2016 version 1 published 05 Aug 2015 1 2 report report report , University of New Mexico, Eric Schulte Albuquerque, USA 1 , Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Frank Harrell USA 2 05 Aug 2015, :483 ( First published: 4 ) https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.6800.1 30 Mar 2016, :483 ( Latest published: 4 ) https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.6800.2 v1 Page 1 of 22 F1000Research 2015, 4:483 Last updated: 16 MAY 2019