可以将R代码文件与.RData对象一起保存以进行版本控制吗？

Question

There is no version control at my work (we have an outdated, centralized system with sensitive patient information, so we can't save things outside of it). When I save a .RData file from a script, I would like to be able to save the exact version of that .R file with it at that time. Is there a way to do this? Eg if I have an R script "run_analysis.R" that has the line

save(data,file='foo.RData')

Is there a way I can do something like

save(data,run_analysis.R,file='foo.RData')

so that if I pull up the data file a year later I'll know exactly what code was used to create it?

Answer 1

you could zip the foo.RData file together with the run_analysis.R file and store the zipped file.

the CRAN package [zip] ( https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/zip/zip.pdf ) can be used to create the zip file from within r.