a certain order, you can number them (more on this in a minute). Sometimes the pipeline is not linear but branched, so numbering may not always make sense. Function scripts should not be numbered.</p></li>
<li><p>Modularize your code: instead of having a giant script to run your entire analysis from data cleaning to final figures, break up your workflow into several short, single-purpose scripts with well-defined inputs and outputs.</p></li>
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