[R] Documenting data

[Robert Baer]

You might look at:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7979609/automatic-documentation-of-datasets

You might also, try the  FIle | Compile Notebook  from within R-Studio 
(https://www.rstudio.com/) on your well-documented R-scripts to get a 
nice reproducible recording/report of data analysis workflow.  Similar 
functionality is available from basic R, but involves more work.  There 
are many other approaches, but the best choice depends on your precise 
needs.

And, as a programmer, you are probably already familiar with things like:
https://google.github.io/styleguide/Rguide.xml



On 6/30/2016 9:51 AM, Pito Salas wrote:
> I am studying statistics and using R in doing it. I come from software development where we document everything we do.
>
> As I “massage” my data, adding columns to a frame, computing on other data, perhaps cleaning, I feel the need to document in detail what the meaning, or background, or calculations, or whatever of the data is. After all it is now derived from my raw data (which may have been well documented) but it is “new.”
>
> Is this a real problem? Is there a “best practice” to address this?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Pito Salas
> Brandeis Computer Science
> Feldberg 131
>
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