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+## Repo as a template
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+There are as many templates for (R) repos as there R users... Here's ours.
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+We srtucture the repo as a package. We may never build it but usually we so so that the package functions are available everywhere in it
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+ * R/ - where we store functions
+ * notData/ - 
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