This directory records best practices for writing literate analysis reports and using RMarkdown to do it.
Literate analysis is a style of writing documents that includes the text and the code for analysis in one document. It is a major benefit in keeping your numbers and figures aligned with your text; consolidating your work sanely; and self-documenting the code your analysis code. See Hannah write up for some more depth.
When you have to write code to generate figure, charts, or graphics to include in a research report, you should write a literate analysis document.
Look to the Courts Transparency cookiecutter for inspiration in getting started.
If this is your first project, we strongly recommend using RStudio, which has fabulous support for RMarkdown.