The aim of resrepo is to encourage and facilitate good practices when setting
up and managing git repositories for scientific research projects. Scientific
projects contain both code and data. git is designed to manage software code,
but it is not suited to track large data files. There are extensions of git,
such as git-lfs and git-annex that can handle data, but they can be complex
to set up and difficult to use, especially when sharing your repository among
collaborators. resrepo encourages good habits to manage your data alongside
your code in plain git, ensuring reproducible science and a tidy repository
that can used for publication of your project.
resrepo is still under development and is not yet available on CRAN. You can
get a preview from GitHub; it is reasonably complete, and we already use it for
our own projects, but please beware that it is under testing. With pak, you
can simply use:
pak::pak("EvolEcolGroup/resrepo")
There is a vignette that describes the functionality of resrepo in more
detail. You can access it
here
There is also a vignette on
data versioning
and on how
to share your repository
with collaborators.