Rproject templates to automate and standardize your workflow

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Demonstrates an RStudio project template workflow that creates standardized folder trees, adds README and R Markdown report templates, stores optional project metadata for headers and code snippets, and initializes git repo automatically. Requires an R package with a project_setup.dcf metadata file and a newproject.R template function; the uploader’s CIDAtools package shows a complete implementation with organization-specific helper functions and the full code hosted on CIDAtools GitHub.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:08Rproject templates for YOUR workflow Caroline Ledbetter
3. 0:24Why Rproject Templates? If you can automatate you should automate
4. 1:00You need: an project Template Metadata Template Function
5. 1:32CIDAtools

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