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R best practices: folders, renv and Quarto v1.0.0

Use this resource to organize a reproducible R project

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Install with the CLI

In a terminal, from the folder you want:

npx --yes palatekit@latest install r-programming-best-practices-rule

First time: connect the CLI with

npx --yes palatekit@latest login

Cursor applies these guidelines to R projects: R/, data/ and output/ folders, raw data kept unchanged, snake_case file names and Git. It favors base R, recommends renv to lock dependencies and Quarto for reports, and asks for version numbers in the DESCRIPTION file of packages.

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What you get

  • The .mdc file (in English): rules on R project structure, dependencies and reports
  • Guidance on R package structure and the DESCRIPTION file

Good fit for

  • A data analysis project in R shared by a team
  • An R repository whose folders and dependencies change from one session to the next

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    Tags

    • r
    • renv
    • quarto
    • reproducibility

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    “Create the cleaning script in the R/ folder and save the output to data/processed/.”

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    Rule published by PatrickJS under the CC0-1.0 license, delivered in its original version.

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    How to use it

    1. Copy the .mdc file into your project's .cursor/rules/ folder
    2. Ask Cursor to organize a reproducible R project
    3. Adjust the rule to your conventions

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    Files

    • LICENSE6.5 KB
    • NOTICE-PALATEKIT.md0.5 KB
    • r-programming-best-practices-rule.mdc7.8 KB

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    Listed unmodified

    Author
    PatrickJS
    Source
    github.com/PatrickJS/awesome-cursorrules/blob/b044f956f021b6e8877f16781bcfc466a6a120e9/rules/r-cursorrules-prompt-file-best-practices.mdc
    Licence
    CC0-1.0

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    « r-cursorrules-prompt-file-best-practices » (PatrickJS, CC0-1.0) livré dans sa version d'origine : fiche en français et en anglais par PalateKit.

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