02-project-intro.md

Project Management With RStudio

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OBJECTIVES
- To be able to create self-contained projects in RStudio
- To be able to use git from within RStudio

R projects

• "File" -> "New Project"
• Best practices for project organization
  • Treat raw data as read-only.
  • Treat generated output as disposable
  • Separate function definition and application (as to avoid duplication)
  • Use version control

doc/      # documents
data/     # raw data & metadata
results/  # files generated during cleanup & analysis
src/      # scripts
bin/      # other and compiled programs

Git

• Use it
• .gitignore file to tell git what files to ignore