TADA — worked example

Caterpillar Abundance Analysis

Description

This is an example repository for "TADA! Simple guidelines to improve analytical code sharing for transparency and reproducibility" manuscript. Note this is example data.

Instructions

The only code file is the Caterpillar.Rmd which has all the code needed to run. Data is in the caterpillar_data folder (data.csv).

Authors

• Edward R. Ivimey-Cook -

Affiliations

• University of East Anglia, UK

Funders

• SORTEE

Directory Structure

TADA/
├── caterpillar_data/
│ └── data.csv
├── Caterpillar.Rmd
├── MyCode.R
├── index.html
└── README.md

Data Files

caterpillar_data/data.csv

Caterpillar count per habitat

Dimensions: 150 rows × 2 columns

Variables:

Column	Type	Description	Units	Summary
habitat	categorical	Habitats A-E		levels: A, B, C, D, E
caterpillar_count	numeric	Number of caterpillars found during surveying	Number of Caterpillars	range 2–36

Other Files

index.html

The html output for the TADA! website.

Code

Scripts should be run in the following order:

1. MyCode.R

   Load packages, imports caterpillar_data, runs a poisson glm on filtered data. Produces Figure 1.

2. Caterpillar.Rmd

   The RMarkdown file to create an example report

R Environment

R version: 4.5.2

Package	Version
dplyr	1.2.1
ggplot2	4.0.2
here	1.0.2

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README generated with READMEBuilder on 18 June 2026.

Citation

A machine-readable CITATION.cff is included, so GitHub's "Cite this repository" button gives formatted APA and BibTeX.

Contact

• Edward R. Ivimey-Cook — e.ivimeycook@gmail.com — ORCID 0000-0003-4910-0443

License

Code is licensed under the MIT License. Data are licensed under CC BY 4.0.