Configuring ProjectTemplate
data_loading: This can be set to 'on' or 'off'. If data_loading is on, the system will load data from both the cache and data directories with cache taking precedence in case of name conflict. By default, data_loading is on.
munging: This can be set to 'on' or 'off'. If munging is on, the system will execute the files in the munge directory sequentially. If munging is off, none of the files in the munge directory will be executed. By default, munging is on.
logging: This can be set to 'on' or 'off'. If logging is on, a logger object using the log4r package is automatically created when you run load.project(). This logger will write to the logs directory. By default, logging is off.
load_libraries: This can be set to 'on' or 'off'. If load_libraries is on, the system will load all of the R packages listed in the libraries field below. By default, load_libraries is off.
libraries: This is a comma separate list of all the R packages that the user wants to automatically load when load.project() is called. These packages must already be installed before calling load.project(). By default, the reshape, plyr, ggplot2, stringr and lubridate packages are included in this list.
as_factors: This can be set to 'on' or 'off'. If as_factors is on, the system will convert every character vector into a factor when creating data frames; most importantly, this occurs when reading in data. If off, character vectors will remain character vectors. By default, as_factors is on.
data_tables: This can be set to 'on' or 'off'. If data_tables is on, the system will convert every data set loaded from the data directory into a data.table. By default, data_tables is off.