Packaging data analytical work reproducibly using R (and friends)

[maurolepore]

This paper -- published in Aug 2017 --describes the state of the art for building research compendia.
https://peerj.com/preprints/3192/

This discussion is also happening elsewhere. Prominent members of the R community are discussing how to structure research projects (this thread contains many interesting opinions and links: ropensci/unconf17#5; and this article will likely be influential: https://goo.gl/7w4zo6). Some tools are starting to arise (e.g. https://github.com/benmarwick/rrtools) but there is still no consensus.