What to store under version control?

If you are using the version control system Git, then be aware that some of the files / folders in the templates above should be ignored i.e. specified in a .gitignore file at the top level of the project.

In general, do not store the following under version control:

• Anything that can be regenerated using the code in your project folder (e.g. data/derived, outputs/).

• Raw datasets, since these are typically large files which Git is not well suited to managing. (Let alone the fact that these files may contain sensitive, personally identifiable data.)

• Files containing (trained) statistical models, for similar reasons.

If using renv:

• The .Rprofile and renv.lock files should be included in version control and distributed with the code.

• Versioning for the contents of the renv/ folder should automatically be taken care of, because the folder contains an automatically generated .gitignore file ensuring that everything is ignored except for an activation script renv/activate.R.

…Otherwise, everything else should be kept under version control.