**Overview:** ProjectTemplate is a powerful package for organising data analysis projects in R. It standardizes and encourages a robust reproducible workflow and helps in automating various aspects of data analysis including configuration, data import, and data manipulation. This talk will cover how the package works with default settings. It will then discuss how the package can be customised to your specific needs to make getting started with a new data analysis project even easier.
**Bio:** Dr Jeromy Anglim is a lecturer in research methods in the School of Psychology at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia and has been using R as his primary statistical tool for over ten years. He is a former co-organiser of the Melbourne R User group and has contributed extensively to the online R community. He has authored many journal articles using R and is the author of the "personalityfacets" R package.