Creating new projects

EPI 590R final project

Your goal will be to create an analysis that

• I can reproduce on my own computer
• Is easy to rerun if I tell you, for example, to remove the 12th row of your dataset

We’ll start this in class!

New projects

We cloned our first project from GitHub; now we are going to start a new project from scratch

1. File > New Project > New Directory > New Project

• If you ever want to convert an existing folder that holds an analysis into an R project, you can choose “Existing Directory”
• You’ll also see other options besides “New Project” – an R package, a Shiny app, etc.
  • These will get you set up with some initial files for these types of projects
  • You can also make a template of your own!

New projects

2. Choose a name for your new project and where to store it on your computer

• Check “Create a git repository”
  • This gets you all set to connect to GitHub and creates a .gitignore file
• You can leave “Use renv with this project” unchecked (we’ll be introducing the {renv} package later!)

Initial Git commit

3. Stage and commit the files

• I usually use “initial commit” as my first commit message since I haven’t don’t anything yet!
• We can’t yet push because we haven’t connected to a remote repository