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Maybe provide a little background on literate programming and its history, drawing, for example, from "A Brief History of R Markdown". Then, define what a research compendium is, drawing from the following sources:

• Research Compendium
• Gentleman & Lang (2007): Statistical Analyses and Reproducible Research
• Nüst et al. (2017): Opening the Publication Process with Executable Research Compendia
• Marwick, Boettiger, & Mullen (2018): Packaging Data Analytical Work Reproducibly Using R (and Friends)
• Ziemann, Poulain, & Bora (2023): The five pillars of computational reproducibility: bioinformatics and beyond
• Sandve et al. (2013): Ten Simple Rules for Reproducible Computational Research
• Write code. Whenever your workflow requires a manual intervention you introduce an opportunity to forget about it. Automate what you can.