Reproducible Research with R

A skill for creating fully reproducible research workflows in R using RMarkdown, Quarto, package management with renv, and project organization best practices. Covers literate programming, environment management, automated reporting, and sharing reproducible analyses.

Project Organization

Recommended Directory Structure

my-research-project/
  README.md
  my-project.Rproj         # RStudio project file
  renv.lock                 # Package versions (managed by renv)
  renv/                     # renv library directory
  data/
    raw/                    # Untouched original data
    processed/              # Cleaned, analysis-ready data
  R/
    01-clean.R              # Data cleaning functions