Chapter 7 Reproducible Project Management

Eventually you will be using R for various different analytic tasks not all corresponding to the same project. Knowing what really needs to be saved and establishing a procedure to keep all of the stuff together for any given project will help in preventing a data loss or information loss. To handle these real life situations, you need to determine:

  1. What about your analysis is “real,” i.e. what will you save as your lasting record of what happened?

  2. Where does your analysis “live?”