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Creating an R Package with RStudio To Create a package open RStudio, on the menu browse File > New Project > New Directory Then, from the following options choose R Package. At this point, we need to assign the R Package a name and tell RStudio where to place the main folder containing our package files without our folder structure. Here, I’ve chosen to put it under the folder University and to call it PerfectRPackage.

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Strategies for Reproducibility According to Lee (2019) reproducibility can be implemented by: Organizing files logically into modules and packages. Using version control software. Writing human-readable documentation. Why is reproducibility important? If the research is reproducible, then the analysis and the methodology are clear. A major building block of the scientific method is the reproducibility of experiements. If independent researchers are able to reproduce our results, this will validate much coding-based research.

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Mauro Camara Escudero

PhD student in Computational Statistics and Data Science at the University of Bristol

COMPASS PhD Student

Bristol, United Kingdom