#!/usr/bin/env Rscript # scaffold_analysis.R — Generates a starter analysis script # # Usage (from terminal): # Rscript scaffold_analysis.R myproject # Rscript scaffold_analysis.R myproject outcome_var group_var # # Usage (from R console): # source("scaffold_analysis.R") # scaffold_analysis("myproject", outcome = "score", group = "treatment") # # Output: myproject_analysis.R (ready to edit) scaffold_analysis <- function(project_name, outcome = "outcome", group = "group", data_file = NULL) { if (is.null(data_file)) data_file <- paste0(project_name, ".csv") out_file <- paste0(project_name, "_analysis.R") template <- sprintf( '# ============================================================ # Project : %s # Created : %s # ============================================================ # ── 0. Libraries ───────────────────────────────────────────── # Add packages you need here # library(ggplot2) # library(haven) # for .dta files # library(openxlsx) # for Excel output # ── 1. Load Data ───────────────────────────────────────────── df <- read.csv("%s", stringsAsFactors = FALSE) # Quick check — always do this first cat("Dimensions:", dim(df), "\\n") str(df) head(df) # ── 2. Explore / EDA ───────────────────────────────────────── summary(df) # NA check na_counts <- colSums(is.na(df)) na_counts[na_counts > 0] # Key variable distributions hist(df$%s, main = "Distribution of %s", xlab = "%s") if ("%s" %%in%% names(df)) { table(df$%s) barplot(table(df$%s), main = "Counts by %s", col = "steelblue", las = 2) } # ── 3. Clean / Transform ────────────────────────────────────── # df <- df[complete.cases(df), ] # drop rows with any NA # df$%s <- as.factor(df$%s) # convert to factor # ── 4. Analysis ─────────────────────────────────────────────── # Descriptive stats by group tapply(df$%s, df$%s, mean, na.rm = TRUE) tapply(df$%s, df$%s, sd, na.rm = TRUE) # t-test (two groups) # t.test(%s ~ %s, data = df) # Linear model fit <- lm(%s ~ %s, data = df) summary(fit) confint(fit) # ANOVA (multiple groups) # fit_aov <- aov(%s ~ %s, data = df) # summary(fit_aov) # TukeyHSD(fit_aov) # ── 5. Visualize Results ────────────────────────────────────── par(mfrow = c(1, 2)) # Boxplot by group boxplot(%s ~ %s, data = df, main = "%s by %s", xlab = "%s", ylab = "%s", col = "lightyellow") # Model diagnostics plot(fit, which = 1) # residuals vs fitted par(mfrow = c(1, 1)) # ── 6. Save Output ──────────────────────────────────────────── # Save cleaned data # write.csv(df, "%s_clean.csv", row.names = FALSE) # Save model summary to text # sink("%s_results.txt") # summary(fit) # sink() # Save plot to file # png("%s_boxplot.png", width = 800, height = 600, res = 150) # boxplot(%s ~ %s, data = df, col = "lightyellow") # dev.off() ', project_name, format(Sys.Date(), "%%Y-%%m-%%d"), data_file, # Section 2 — EDA outcome, outcome, outcome, group, group, group, group, # Section 3 group, group, # Section 4 outcome, group, outcome, group, outcome, group, outcome, group, outcome, group, outcome, group, # Section 5 outcome, group, outcome, group, group, outcome, # Section 6 project_name, project_name, project_name, outcome, group ) writeLines(template, out_file) cat(sprintf("Created: %s\n", out_file)) invisible(out_file) } # ── Run from command line ───────────────────────────────────── if (!interactive()) { args <- commandArgs(trailingOnly = TRUE) if (length(args) == 0) { cat("Usage: Rscript scaffold_analysis.R [outcome_var] [group_var]\n") cat("Example: Rscript scaffold_analysis.R myproject score treatment\n") quit(status = 1) } project <- args[1] outcome <- if (length(args) >= 2) args[2] else "outcome" group <- if (length(args) >= 3) args[3] else "group" scaffold_analysis(project, outcome = outcome, group = group) }