---
title: "README"
output: github_document
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
```

## R Template Project

This project provides a template structure of folders and files for an R project.

## Folder Structure

The project comprises of three main folders in which you would store certain files.

### data/

This folder should contain data files like .csv, .xls, .spss, etc.

In this folder:

- An example data set of bird information taken from the [UCLA statistics teaching material](http://www.stat.ucla.edu/projects/datasets/).

### R/

This folder should contain R script files.

In this folder:

- Template script with the key section headers described by the [Google's R Style Guide](https://google.github.io/styleguide/Rguide.xml).

### Rmd/

This folder should contain all R markdown and associated files.

In this folder:

- **reference_docx/** which should contain any reference documents to be used by R Markdown file. This currently includes:
  - A default APA-style word doc, "APA-style-01.docx"
- **bib/** which should contain bibliographies to be used by R Markdown file. This currently includes:
  - An example bibliography file, "example-bib.bib"
- **img/** which should contain images to be inserted into R Markdown file. This currently imcludes:
  - An image showing the output formats generated by R Markdown, "RMarkdownOutputFormats.png"
- A template R Markdown for producing APA-style word documents. For styling, this references "reference_docx/APA-style-01.docx"