Lab Handbook
Standards, policies, and best practices
Everything you need to work effectively in the Rashid Lab. Click any section to explore.
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Getting Started
New to the lab? First week checklist, tools setup, and GitHub fundamentals.
Coding Standards
R style guide, Git practices, and reproducible pipelines with {targets}.
Project Templates
Starter templates for research projects, methods papers, and R packages.
More Resources
Policies & Consistency
Lab Policies Communication, data, publications
Project Consistency Keep code and manuscripts in sync
Meeting Schedule Rotation and upcoming dates
Project Handoff Transferring projects to others
Quick Links
GitHub Organization All lab repositories
Meeting Discussions Biweekly agenda threads
Lab Dashboard Schedules and status
Glossary Terms and definitions
NoteKey Conventions
- Data manipulation: Base R +
data.table(not tidyverse) - Version control: Git + GitHub for everything
- Meetings: Every two weeks, Thursdays 9:30am, agendas via GitHub Discussions
- HPC: Run production work on Longleaf