target-causalclaims

Code associated with Garrison & Colleagues (2024) Causal Claims Paper.

Running analyses

Step 1: Recreate Package Environment with renv

renv is a package manager for R that aids in reproducibility by facilitating project-specific dependencies. For more information on it, see the Introduction to renv Vignette. To ensure the analysis run smoothly, you can easily recreate our package environment as follows:

if (!require("renv")) install.packages("renv")
renv::restore()

This recreates all of the R packages used in the analysis on your computer. Because renv works on a project-specific level, this should not affect where your R packages are installed on your machine or impact other analysis work with R.

Step 2: Run the target workflow

The targets package is a pipeline toolkit for conducting analyses in R. It helps you maintain a reproducible workflow with minimal overhead by learning how code fits together and only running out-of-date tasks. For more information on the targets package, check out the user manual.

In order to re-run the analysis from the paper, all you need to do is call the following and the targets package will re-run any necessary tasks, saving the output into _targets/objects folder.

targets::tar_make()

Step 3: Review Results

That's it! To inspect the underlying regression objects, run targets::tar_load(contains("results")) or view a prettified table version in the output/ folder.

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GitHub Repository structure and README adapted from Nicholas Tierney's ttiq-simulation repo.