add_preregistration: Add Rmarkdown preregistration

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Add Rmarkdown preregistration

Description

Adds an Rmarkdown preregistration template to a 'worcs' project.

Usage

add_preregistration(
  worcs_directory = ".",
  preregistration = "cos_prereg",
  verbose = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

worcs_directory	Character, indicating the directory in which to create the manuscript files. Default: '.', which points to the current working directory.
preregistration	Character, indicating what template to use for the preregistration. Default: "cos_prereg"; use "None" to omit a preregistration. See Details for other available choices.
verbose	Logical. Whether or not to print messages to the console during project creation. Default: TRUE
...	Additional arguments passed to and from functions.

Details

Available choices include the templates from the prereg package, and several unique templates included with worcs:

'PSS'

Preregistration and Sharing Software (Krypotos, Klugkist, Mertens, & Engelhard, 2019)

'Secondary'

Preregistration for secondary analyses (Mertens & Krypotos, 2019)

'aspredicted_prereg'

aspredicted template from the prereg package

'brandt_prereg'

brandt template from the prereg package

'cos_prereg'

cos template from the prereg package

'fmri_prereg'

fmri template from the prereg package

'prp_quant_prereg'

prp_quant template from the prereg package

'psyquant_prereg'

psyquant template from the prereg package

'rr_prereg'

rr template from the prereg package

'vantveer_prereg'

vantveer template from the prereg package

Value

No return value. This function is called for its side effects.

Examples

the_test <- "worcs_prereg"
old_wd <- getwd()
dir.create(file.path(tempdir(), the_test))
file.create(file.path(tempdir(), the_test, ".worcs"))
add_preregistration(file.path(tempdir(), the_test),
                    preregistration = "cos_prereg")
setwd(old_wd)
unlink(file.path(tempdir(), the_test))

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