An Important Workflow Tip
This lesson is called An Important Workflow Tip, part of the R in 3 Months (Fall 2021) course. This lesson is called An Important Workflow Tip, part of the R in 3 Months (Fall 2021) course.
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In RStudio, go to Tools > Project Options. From there, make the following changes:
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Jenny Bryan and Jim Hester have written about why it’s best practice to not restore .RData at startup as part of their What They Forgot to Teach You About R workshop. See, in particular, Chapter 1 of their materials, where they write:
Saving code – not workspaces – is incredibly important because it is an absolute requirement for reproducibility. Renouncing .Rdata and restarting R often are not intrinsically important or morally superior behaviours. They are important because they provide constant pressure for you to do the right thing: save the source code needed to create all important artefacts of your analysis.
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Shira Solomon • April 7, 2022
The Tools menu didn't let me select Project Options, but I could get to the same options in the Global Options. Does it matter?