ntw readme

expts/dates/etc are listed with the oldest first.

field seasons and expts

field season	expt	notes
2023 spring	temps	2x2
2023 spring	acc	damage accumulation
2023 spring - fall	NTs (same as ntw)	dev and tents initial
2023 fall	F1s	hatchlings from NTs expt
2024 summer	ntw	dev, partial tents update (longevity; virgin eggs)
2025 summer	ntw	dev and tents update (similar to 2023)

further details about year-specific workflows and expts are listed below (might be somewhat inaccurate).

expt details contents

2023-v0

the earliest iteration of this repo didn't really have a good workflow 🤪, but see figure filenaming scheme below:

• figures are vaguely labeled as [expt]_[response] :

  • instar/temp: experiment type

  • growth/surv: growth or survival analyses

• and might be further subsetted:

  • a/l: adult or larva

  • A/B: cohort

2023

• the big 3 expts (in order of when i ran them during that time period mentioned above). larval growth/dev data collected for all; adult fertility/F1 data collected for NTs only

  • temps: 2x2 temps
  • acc: looking for damage accumulation
  • NTs: diff nts

• bonus/followups expts

  • ctrls: ntw expt-wide & internal controls for the big 3 expts
  • tents: adult fertility followups for NT bugs
  • F1s: 2nd gen development/growth stuff for NT bugs

2024

• ntw-compare: 2023 + 2024 data. for main growth/dev/fertility stats. (might not actually exist anymore?)

2025

• data processing/analysis workflow mostly standardised (see v2026.01 tag): each year is processed separately during import/tidying and combined into a single df for wrangle/analysis.

• data setup in 2025 is most similar to 2023 but with some differences.

workflow version history (reference only)

the current (2025 summer and onwards) analysis workflow in _ntw/scripts/ should be compatible with data from all field seasons (see root readme), but comments on previous versions of workflows/directory structures for the 2023 and 2024 field seasons (_ntw/.../archive/) are included below for reference (but also has some out-of-date changes).

2023

1. cleaning_[EXPT].Rmd: data cleaning scripts (pulls data from the gsheets); outputs into ./data/

   • ntw: larval growth/dev stuff for the big 3 expts + F1s

   • tents: parsing out adult/tents stuff (longevity, parents, hatching)

2. helpers_[EXPT].R: data/library loading & pre-wrangling for the analysis scripts; defines some convenience functions/aesthetic objects to be used for analyses

   • ntw and tents usage is same as the above

3. analyses_[EXPT].Rmd: analysis scripts for different types of expts (modeling stuff, figure generation). data/things is loaded from the corresponding helper script

2024

⚠️ as of 2026-01-05: _ox/, outputs/entsoc/, outputs/feasibility/ use a similar workflow. see repo update status.

• 01-cleaning/: takes raw gsheets and outputs cleaned ones into data/

• 02-wrangle/: takes cleaned data/ and manipulates into suitable formats for downstream analyses.

• .Rmds are purled into .Rs, which are sourced by the corresponding 03-<task>/ script.

• some analyses have an additional <analysis>_util.R script supplying other helper/convenience functions.

• 03-<task>/: sources data objects from 02-wrangle/<analysis>.R. necessary libraries should be loaded in on a per-script basis here (rather than being imported from 02-wrangle/<analysis>.R).

  • stats: does modeling

  • viz: does visualisation