Templated Analyses within R Packages for Collaborative, Reproducible Research

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An R package called alarm-redist/fifty-states organizes redistricting work so novices run devtools::load_all() and invoke templated functions like init_analysis("DE", 2000) to scaffold files, data checks, and GitHub pull requests. The workflow generates large plan samples (thousands to hundreds of thousands), automates Dataverse uploads and a reusable diagnostics checklist used for the 2020 Washington analysis, reduces onboarding time, and admits that determined users can still break things.

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