Add Rmarkdown preregistration — add_preregistration • worcs

Adds an Rmarkdown preregistration template to a 'worcs' project.

Usage

add_preregistration(
  worcs_directory = ".",
  preregistration = "cos_prereg",
  verbose = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

worcs_directory: Character, indicating the directory in which to create the manuscript files. Default: '.', which points to the current working directory.
preregistration: Character, indicating what template to use for the preregistration. Default: "cos_prereg"; use "None" to omit a preregistration. See Details for other available choices.
verbose: Logical. Whether or not to print messages to the console during project creation. Default: TRUE
...: Additional arguments passed to and from functions.

Value

No return value. This function is called for its side effects.

Details

Available choices include the templates from the prereg package, and several unique templates included with worcs:

'PSS': Preregistration and Sharing Software (Krypotos, Klugkist, Mertens, & Engelhard, 2019)
'Secondary': Preregistration for secondary analyses (Mertens & Krypotos, 2019)
'aspredicted_prereg': aspredicted template from the prereg package
'brandt_prereg': brandt template from the prereg package
'cos_prereg': cos template from the prereg package
'fmri_prereg': fmri template from the prereg package
'prp_quant_prereg': prp_quant template from the prereg package
'psyquant_prereg': psyquant template from the prereg package
'rr_prereg': rr template from the prereg package
'vantveer_prereg': vantveer template from the prereg package

Examples

the_test <- "worcs_prereg"
old_wd <- getwd()
dir.create(file.path(tempdir(), the_test))
file.create(file.path(tempdir(), the_test, ".worcs"))
#> [1] TRUE
add_preregistration(file.path(tempdir(), the_test),
                    preregistration = "cos_prereg")
#> ✔ Creating preregistration files.
setwd(old_wd)
unlink(file.path(tempdir(), the_test))