emLab SOP

The Environmental Markets Lab (emLab) Standard Operating Procedures collect the conventions that keep our research reproducible, well organized, and easy to collaborate on.

emLab is a research center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, working at the intersection of economics, environmental science, and policy. These pages are for everyone writing code or working with data at the lab, and they are meant to evolve with us. If you spot a gap or have a better way of doing something, open an issue to start the conversation, then send a pull request once we’ve agreed on the shape of the change.¹

Files

Where things live and how they’re organized.

• Google Shared Drive
• GRIT Data Storage Space
• GitHub Structure

Data

Naming, formats, metadata, and confidentiality.

• Data File Naming
• Metadata
• Accessing emLab Data in R
• Tidy Data
• Data Formats
• Data Use Agreements and Confidential Data

Code

Style, documentation, and reproducibility.

• Code Styling
• Code Documentation
• Functional Programming
• Exploratory Data Analysis
• Package Reproducibility
• Pipeline Reproducibility
• Code Review

Quarto

Authoring reproducible documents and websites.

• Chunk Best Practices
• Figures, Tables, and References
• Citations and Bibliography
• Caching
• Using R targets
• Themes and Dark Mode
• Publishing
• Presentations

Servers

Running jobs on Sequoia and Quebracho.

• Resources and Software
• Getting Set Up
• Using Sequoia
• Using Quebracho
• Best Practices
• Accessing Data
• Accessing Code

Publications

Authorship, reports, and sharing outputs.

• Affiliation and Authorship
• Reports
• Publishing Data
• Public GitHub Repository
• Sharing on Website

Footnotes

1. For day-to-day lab logistics — onboarding, meetings, GRIT account setup, and the like — see the separate emLab Manual.