Reproducible Research Automation: Glossary

Key Points

Introduction to automation
  • R, RStudio and RMarkdown allow for powerful reproducible research.

  • ‘ProjectTemplate’ allows users to quickly and easily create a standardized directory structure for R projects.

Functions
  • Functions complete tasks in a reproducible manner

  • Functions improve reproducibility

Functions for data
  • Function automate reading data

  • You can build your own functions specific to your issues

Functions for figures
  • Functions help make figures easier to make

  • Unittesting helps ensure functions do what we think they should

Glossary