On the Programmatic Generation of Reproducible Documents

Reproducible document standards, like R Markdown, facilitate the programmatic creation of documents whose content is itself programmatically generated. While alone may not be sufficient for a rendered since it does include prose (content generated by an author to provide context, narrative, etc.) generation can substantial efficiencies structuring and constructing documents. This paper explores reproducible distinguishing components that created computational means from those requiring human-generation, providing guidelines these documents, identifying use case in clinical trial reporting. These concepts are illustrated through listdown package programming environment, which currently available on Comprehensive Archive Network.