I have supervised my first master project this year. The project is coming to an end, and I am very happy with the results as well as the fully reproducible workflow we have followed: all developed on GitHub using R package structure and Rmarkdown.
Science has a big reproducibility problem: hardly anyone can reproduce (i.e. re-run, re-obtain) the results of most published papers (including authors themselves!). That is a big problem not only for science as a collective enterprise but also for scientists' everyday life (‘how did I do this?
Many of us often need to gather species lists, either from our own field surveys or from bibliographical sources and databases. Many problems may arise during this process. For instance, a species may have been given different names by different authors, and we don’t know which one is currently accepted.