This whole lesson probably needs reworking. No one needs to know the gory details presented here. It should really be taught top-down instead of bottom up. Show people some RMarkdown in action first, then get into the details.
See also #49 - the reproducible research section is woefully out of date.
http://bioconnector.org/workshops/r-rmarkdown.html https://github.com/bioconnector/workshops/blob/master/r-rmarkdown.Rmd
This whole lesson probably needs reworking. No one needs to know the gory details presented here. It should really be taught top-down instead of bottom up. Show people some RMarkdown in action first, then get into the details.
See also #49 - the reproducible research section is woefully out of date.
Some resources to look at:
On reproducibility:
Reproducibility and replicability is a glossy science now so watch out for the hype · Simply Statistics https://simplystatistics.org/2017/03/02/rr-glossy/
Instead of research on reproducibility, just do reproducible research · Simply Statistics https://simplystatistics.org/2015/12/11/instead-of-research-on-reproducibility-just-do-reproducible-research/
A Simple Explanation for the Replication Crisis in Science · Simply Statistics https://simplystatistics.org/2016/08/24/replication-crisis/
Practical computational reproducibility in the life sciences | bioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/10/11/200683
Project-oriented workflow - Tidyverse
https://www.tidyverse.org/articles/2017/12/workflow-vs-script/
cc @vpnagraj