Publishing work flow template

After some time my cookiecutter templates for my data analysis work flow is finally in a state that I can show the world. You can get it from github. All in all it is my way to setup a reproducible research work flow - for too long I have just copied files around.

It is all about using external tools in addition to R. The most essential being make. I am very proud about the makefile that keeps code and data directories clean. I am still considering to name the directories differently - but I have used this scheme for so long that it has become my second nature. Also the way make tracks dependencies between code and data helps me keep sane in more complex analysis work flow.

The longest I spent on getting knitr respect the directory layout on which I insist. But finally it seems to obey me.

I am looking forward how it will speed up my setup.