initialize_project: create a new data analysis project

In PennStateDEPENdLab/dependlab: Useful functions for the UNC Chapel Hill DEPENd Lab (Director: Michael Hallquist)

create a new data analysis project

Description

automatically creates project directory and creates .Rproj file

Usage

initialize_project(
  path,
  sub_dirs = c("analysis_scripts", "preproc_scripts", "support_fx", "data_raw",
    "data_preproc", "figures", "results", "reports"),
  git_setup = TRUE,
  open = TRUE,
  readme_text = paste0("Welcome to ", basename(path), "!")
)

Arguments

path	full path of the project directory to be created
sub_dirs	character vector of high-level directories to add. Defaults to DEPENd Lab standard practice.
git_setup	logical. intitialize new git repository and perform initial commit
open	logical. open newly Rstudio project
description	text to display in README.md

Details

make sure to install github CLI to use gh commands: https://github.com/cli/cli#installation. Flesh this out at a later date

Author(s)

Nate Hall

Examples

## Not run: 
 initialize_project("~/Documents/github_repos/dimt_analysis")
 initialize_project("~/Documents/github_repos/dimt_analysis", git_setup = FALSE) # just creates directory structure with no git integration

## End(Not run)

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