The Lab's Reproducible Analysis Template

Purpose

A template analysis repository that standardizes new project setup with package management, directory structure, and a Quarto report scaffold to support reproducible, collaborative, and open-science workflows.

Intended Users

Lab members and collaborators at the Seafood Globalization Lab who are starting a new R-based analysis.

Key components

• report.qmd - a Quarto report pre-configured for open-science workflows pak-based package management with a snapshot-pinned CRAN repository for reproducibility
• 00_write_pkg_deps.R - A lockfile script to record exact package versions
• 00_functions.R - A placeholder for custom functions
• Pre-structured output, data, figures, and scripts directories
• .gitignore - tuned to exclude data, rendered HTML, and user-specific R files

How to use

1. From the GitHub website OR
2. From the terminal / command line interface

gh repo create Seafood-Globalization-Lab/my-new-repo-name --public --clone --template Seafood-Globalization-Lab/analysis-template