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 > > > > -- > Dr. Greg Wilson | [email protected] > Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > > > > > -- > ---- > Scott Ritchie, BCompSci, MSc, > Ph.D. Student, > Medical Systems Biology Group, > Department of Pathology, > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences, > The University of Melbourne > Parkville, Victoria, Australia > W: http://www.inouyelab.org > P: +61 3 9035 8916 > E: [email protected] > > > Research Community Co-ordinator for the Life Sciences & > Software Carpentry Instructor for R and Data Science. > > Department of Research Platforms, > The University of Melbourne. > W: http://resbaz.tumblr.com/ > > W: http://software-carpentry.org/ > > > President, > Bioinformatics Graduate Student Association (BGSA), > The University of Melbourne. > W: http://bioinformatics.asn.au/bgsa/ > F: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BGSA.melbourne/ > E: [email protected] > > > General Committee, > COMBINE: The Regional Student Group (RSG) Australia; > for the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) > W: http://combine.org.au/ > http://www.iscb.org/ > ---- > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
