The companion templates

Pick the template that matches what you’re building. Both are GitHub template repositories — click “Use this template” to spin up your own copy.

Template	What it produces	Languages
project-template	The empirical research pipeline (download, transform, figures, tables, provenance). Pick a language combination at setup time; the template prunes the rest.	R and Python for every step; Stata for the analyze/tables step (any subset selectable at first run)
overleaf-template	The LaTeX manuscript that consumes the figures and tables produced by project-template.	LaTeX (Overleaf-compatible)

The two are designed to be used together: project-template writes .tex files into its OUTPUT_DIR, and overleaf-template’s main.tex reads them via \input{}. They share the same .env / keyring conventions so figures and tables produced by one slot into the other without configuration.

For information on reporting issues, contributing fixes or improvements, or seeking support, see Contributing.

A real-world example

A finished research project built on the conventions these templates demonstrate:

• Paper: Larocque, S. A., Watkins, J., and Weisbrod, E. H. (forthcoming). “Consensus? An Examination of Differences in Earnings Information Across Forecast Data Providers.” Journal of Accounting Research (in production).
• DOI: 10.1111/1475-679x.70072 (activates once Wiley completes production)
• Companion GitHub repository: https://github.com/eweisbrod/consensus

The consensus repository applies the same patterns the templates here demonstrate, across a multi-language (R, Stata, SAS) production project that satisfies JAR’s Data and Code Sharing Policy.