The research design itself consists simply of an RStudio project and some yaml encoded metadata files, as well as RMarkdown files that document the research.
#library(researchr) library(DiagrammeR)
mermaid(" graph LR DC-->MP DC-->ID MP-->ED ID-->ED ID-->MP MP-->PT ED-->PT PT-->DC ")
mermaid(" graph LR DC1-->MP1 DC1-->MP2 DC1-->MP3 MP2-->ED1 MP3-->ED1 ID1-->ED1 ED1-->PT1 DC2-->MP4 MP4-->PT2 PT2-->DC3 DC3-->ID2 DC3-->MP4 ID2-->MP5 MP5-->ED2 ")