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Preserve the origin story of package data

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
r
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Review the datasets under data/ and the corresponding generation scripts under data-raw/, starting with metalite and metalite.ae. Follow the R Packages book's data/data-raw guidance and document how the datasets were generated, including links to the code. Done when the dataset origin stories and generation process are clearly recorded.

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Description

documentation

Would be useful to clearly document how the datasets under data/ were generated (with code).

For example, metalite and metalite.ae both have scripts under data-raw/, suggested by the R Packages book.

Dominant language
R
Stars
14
Forks
2
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