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Create a new project

Source: R/new_project.R
new_project.Rd

This function sets up a new project within an active R project for reproducible purposes.

Usage

new_project()

Value

A project containing folders and files for reproducible purposes.

Details

The project includes:

  • README.md: the top level description of content in the project

  • Makefile

  • different folders to hold all data, code, results of data analysis, and documents related to the project

  • templates: manuscript.Rmd, code.R, etc.

Note

The function should be executed within an active project.

Recommended workflow:

  1. Create a GitHub repository for the new project. At Initialize this repository with a README, choose NO.

  2. Create a new RStudio Project via git clone.

  3. Use function new_project() to generate folders and file templates.

References

Reproducibile Research Tutorial Series by Pat Schloss.

Examples


if(interactive()){
  new_project()
}