[R] Documenting data

[Bert Gunter]

In addition to what others have suggested, see ?history.

Cheers,
Bert


Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
and sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )


On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 7:51 AM, Pito Salas <pitosalas at brandeis.edu> 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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