dfe-analytical-services / dfeR

Common R tasks in the Department for Education (DfE)
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Create FOI project option in `create_project()` #80

Open rmbielby opened 1 month ago

rmbielby commented 1 month ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

We're encouraging analysts to use R + Git repos for their FOI work and it would be useful to have a standardised way for them to set this up.

Describe the solution you'd like

If someone adds a flag - e.g. project_type="foi" - when calling the create_project(), maybe it could add in some extra standard elements we'd like to see in team FOI repos. For example:

Describe alternatives you've considered

Currently we're expecting analysts to put this together themselves, which will duplicate efforts in creating the report code especially.

Additional context

This is linked to HoP office's guidance on handling FOIs.