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Authors
Affiliation

Reema Gupta, M.Sc.

LMU Open Science Center

Malika Ihle, M.Sc., PhD

LMU Open Science Center

Published

November 2, 2025

Contributors

This site was authored by Reema Gupta and Malika Ihle.

Licenses

The overall project is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license found at LICENSE; all code without any narrative text is also (at your option) available under the CC0 1.0 Universal license found at LICENSE-CODE.

Why two licenses? The CC BY-SA 4.0 license is for the content of the website, while the CC0 1.0 Universal license is for the code and configuration files. This is a common practice for websites that include code snippets and other content that may be reused in other projects, particularly because the CC BY-SA 4.0 license is not intended to be used with software.

Notes

This tutorial was primarily written in 2025 using R 4.4+ with the {datawizard} package for automated data dictionary creation. Major changes to the {datawizard} package can be found at the package’s website for the most up-to-date information, and to confirm that our tutorial is not out-of-date.

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Citation

BibTeX citation:
@online{gupta2025,
  author = {Gupta, Reema and Ihle, Malika},
  title = {Data {Documentation} and {Validation} Using {R} {Tutorial}},
  date = {2025-11-02},
  url = {https://lmu-osc.github.io/data-dictionary-R/},
  doi = {DOI HERE},
  langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Gupta, Reema, and Malika Ihle. 2025. “Data Documentation and Validation Using R Tutorial.” LMU Open Science Center. November 2, 2025. https://doi.org/DOI HERE.