Reproducibility ladder

Aim to go at least a little higher in your next project in at least one area

1. Scriptability
2. Literate Programming
3. Version Control
4. Automation

R Markdown tips / resources

• R Markdown cheatsheet: https://www.rstudio.com/resources/cheatsheets/
• R Markdown document should be in your root directory
• Do not set a working directory in your R Markdown document
  • Actually, don't ever use setwd()
  • See the here package for an alternative approach

GitHub tips / resources

• It's pretty easy to convert your repo to a website
  • Go to Settings and then Enable GitHub pages
  • Lots of Packages to help create a nice webpage: blogdown, bookdown, pkgdown, etc.
• You can use GitHub as a search engine to see how people write their Makefiles and how they use functions in a given language
• You can add a license to your repo upon creation or later by adding a file called LICENSE.md
  • GitHub provides you a list to select licenses from
  • Think about commercial/non commercial, share alike/not
  • See https://choosealicense.com/ for help with picking a license
• Happy Git with R by Jenny Bryan

Make tips and resources

• Some projects you can outline well initially and start with a Makefile
• Others you'll want to start working in an R Markdown document and then break it up into pieces and use make to glue the pieces back together
• Thinking about the folder structure(s) helps and leveraging tools like here helps
• Leverage the community, you are not alone in dealing with these types of problems
  • Twitter, Stack Overflow, etc.
  • Scientific computing is a large tent - look beyond R for ideas