I think a standard folder structure for all SWC projects would be
useful. At a minimum it should contain:

|-->Scripts
|-->Output
|-->Data
|   |->Sample Data

On Wed, 2015-02-11 at 11:09 +1100, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> I had a play with Project Template, and incorporating it into a novice
> R lesson on projects. I ultimately ended up stripped it out because it
> was unnecessarily complicated and tried to automate too much for a
> novice lesson. Instead, I am using it as a guide for populating new
> projects with useful subdirectories.
> 
> ​
> 
> On 10 February 2015 at 23:18, Greg Wilson
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>         Via
>         http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2015/02/cookie-cutter.html:
>         
>         
>         "Cookie cutter" projects are quite common — essentially, they
>         are pre-built templates for project that follow some kind of
>         convention for folder structures and basic boilerplate.
>         Examples include cookiecutter and Project Template.
>         
>         For Software Carpentry, it serves as a way for us to teach our
>         attendees some best practices while showing them the
>         importance of reproducibility and scripts. It also allows a
>         low barrier of entry to actually set up a project folder
>         structure, since re-organizing folders when a project is fully
>         developed will most likely not happen.
>         
>         If you use cookie cutter project templates of some kind, we'd
>         like to hear about them: please add pointers to this GitHub
>         issue or mail us directly.
>         
>         
>         Thanks,
>         Greg
>         
>         
>         
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