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?