From a chaotic EDA to an organized workflow

[robschick]

Do you think you all can touch on how/when to ease the transition from, for me at least, what usually starts out as a pretty free-flowing and chaotic EDA on a new project, to the type of scripted and controlled workflow that was covered yesterday? My research projects tend to be pretty unstructured at first, and even though I use version control, can get a bit bloated as I try new analyses. If when we settle on a workflow like that covered yesterday, what do we do with all the other code? Keep it in a repository, and start a new, smaller and refactored one?

You mentioned it a bit with the smell-test.R file, but I often end up with an entire smell test repo. Should these all be on branches?

Cheers