Practical Data Science with R

Chapter 10. Documentation and deployment

This chapter covers

• Producing effective milestone documentation
• Managing project history using source control
• Deploying results and making demonstrations

In this chapter, we’ll work through producing effective milestone documentation, code comments, version control records, and demonstration deployments. The idea is that these can all be thought of as important documentation of the work you’ve done. Table 10.1 expands a bit on our goals for this chapter.

Table 10.1. Chapter goals

Goal	Description
Produce effective milestone documentation	A readable summary of project goals, data provenance, steps taken, and technical results (numbers and graphs). Milestone documentation is usually ...