3  Project set up: Good practices

3.1 Reproducible workflows

3.2 Setting up a new project

3.3 Folder structure

Readings: TSDS(Wright et al. 2021) Section 1.6

3.4 Naming files and other things

Readings:

• Bryan (2015), naming things presentation slide deck, Reproducible Science Workshop, 2015.
• Wright et al. (2021), File Naming

Bryan’s three principles for (file) names: Make names that

• machine readable

• human readable

• play well with default ordering

See also: Hadley Wickham (2021), The tidyverse style guide. Section 1.1: “Names”

Bryan, Jenny. 2015. “How to Name Files.” https://speakerdeck.com/jennybc/how-to-name-files.

Wickham, Hadley. 2021. The Tidyverse Style Guide. https://style.tidyverse.org/index.html.

Wright, Carrie, Shannon E. Ellis, Stephanie C. Hicks, and Roger D. Peng. 2021. Tidyverse Skills for Data Science. https://jhudatascience.org/tidyversecourse/.