At the Reproducible Research Hackathon in December we (i.e. Hilmar) developed a 
similar idea that people might want to check out / offer suggestions:

https://github.com/Reproducible-Science-Curriculum/rr-init 
<https://github.com/Reproducible-Science-Curriculum/rr-init>

Pat

> On Feb 3, 2015, at 5:03 PM, Aron Ahmadia <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Very cool Dan!  My only suggestion would be to create a top-level README file 
> describing the directory structure (and possibly referring back to your 
> script's URL), or print that out to the screen for the user to create their 
> own file or append to their own.
> 
> The shell experts will probably want to add a little error-handling.  At 
> minimum, the script should probably turn clobbering off before writing to 
> files.
> 
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Daniel Chen <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Ever since Ivan showed Noble's PlosONE article [1] at the Harvard workshop, I 
> began to follow the template and teach it in workshops.
> 
> I created a quick bash script [2] since I just started another project, and 
> thought it'd share with everyone.  The code isn't pretty, but it does the 
> job.  Improvements welcome!
> 
> And hopefully it'll be a less barrier to entry for people to setup project 
> folders after they attend a workshop.
> 
> 
> [1] 
> http://journals.plos.org/ploscollections/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000424
>  
> <http://journals.plos.org/ploscollections/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000424>
> [2] https://github.com/chendaniely/computational-project-cookie-cutter 
> <https://github.com/chendaniely/computational-project-cookie-cutter>
> 
> 
> - Dan
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