Reproducible Research Literate Programming

Key Points

Documenting data manipulation	Keep raw data read only. Manipulate data in a reproducible manner
Literate programming	`RMarkdown` and `knitr` are powerful tools. Output can be rendered in many formats. You don’t need to know HTML!
Explore a working knitr document	`RMarkdown` and `knitr` are powerful tools. It all comes together very nicely

Literate programming - is an approach to programming in which a program is given as an explanation of the program logic in a natural language and is interspersed with snippets of macros and traditional source code.