title: Rproj with separate data folder
body: <p>what would be an ideal workflow for working with an Rproj that has proprietary/huge data that should live outside the project root folder? It does have common directory root, just that it's not the project root.</p>
  
  <p>The directory structure looks like the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>1 . (root directory)
  2  ¦--dev
  3  ¦   °--me
  4  ¦       °--projname (project root)
  5  ¦           °--.git
  6  °--data
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><code>here::here</code> does not work well for moving up the root directory: see <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51712725/use-the-here-function-to-go-up-a-level-above-root-directory">this SO post</a>. </p>
  
  <p>The data files are backed up in a file hosting service common to all collaborators. It is a convoluted structure, and I'm not sure what to do. </p>