What an Early 2000s Reality Show Taught Me about File Management
summary
Home organization rules map to concrete file practices: use RStudio Projects so each project is self-contained and opens in a fresh R session with restored files and working directory; adopt version control to revert and compare changes instead of hoarding versions; generate a lookup table by parsing YAML from .qmd files (uses cordo inspect) and embed it in a README to summarize dozens of analyses; prefer machine-readable names with ISO 8601 dates and zero-padded sequence numbers.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:26Background
- 2:04Neat
- 4:23Self Contain Projects
- 7:17Version Control
- 9:34Directory Structure
- 12:37Consistency
- 13:54File Naming
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