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rostools / prodigenr

Project directory generator R package
http://rostools.github.io/prodigenr
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Extend folder structure #124

Closed jcolomb closed 1 week ago

jcolomb commented 3 years ago

linked to #119,

A possiblity is to use the structure describe in : Colomb, Julien, Thorsten Arendt, Keisuke Sehara, and The Gin-Tonic team. “Towards a Standardized Research Folder Structure.” Generation Research, 2021. https://doi.org/10.25815/WCY6-M233.

lwjohnst86 commented 3 years ago

O neat! Thanks! My current updates are focused on more maintenance work, so won't be adding more folder styles any time soon.

What's the advantage of having so many folders with those long and descriptive names rather than having lots of files with similar descriptive names? If using files rather than folders, transitions to e.g. a distill/bookdown website would be minimal work.

jcolomb commented 3 years ago

It is a question of human readability. Research in data organisation show that the use of folders help people remember how they organised stuff, also finding files in a long list is difficult. These kind of project folders are usually not turning into websites (but a website could be a nice template to add ?).

I have lots to do ATM, but I may come back with a PR in the future...

jcolomb commented 3 years ago

we moved our work to github, see template at https://github.com/tonic-team/Tonic-Research-Project-Template and documentation https://gin-tonic.netlify.app/

Both work in progress ;)

lwjohnst86 commented 1 week ago

I'm minimizing maintenance and scope for this package, so closing this.