How do I format folders for programming?

I was wondering whether there was some documentation I could review or receive some suggestions on how to format a folder for my programs.

I'm fairly new to programming (~1.5 years with R) and I'm extremely new to coding with a team (I did my masters in public health and while there was some amount of collaboration, I did 99% of the coding for my project). However, I wanna go back and clean up/simplify a lot of my code so it's easier for others to understand and tweak things if need be.

I'm used to coding in an R environment so I would previously just vomit code onto an R script and call it a day. However, after learning some Python, I now realize that I should probably have different R script files for different purposes (a file containing the model, a test file, a validation file, a README file, etc). I haven't been able to find any documentation on this at the moment, most likely because I'm not even sure how I should ask this question, and was wondering whether there were any good resources for this out there. Thank you in advance!

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66913633/how-do-i-format-folders-for-programming April 02, 2021 at 10:06AM