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Statistical Analyses And Reproducible Research, Robert Gentleman, Duncan Temple Lang
Statistical Analyses And Reproducible Research, Robert Gentleman, Duncan Temple Lang
Bioconductor Project Working Papers
For various reasons, it is important, if not essential, to integrate the computations and code used in data analyses, methodological descriptions, simulations, etc. with the documents that describe and rely on them. This integration allows readers to both verify and adapt the statements in the documents. Authors can easily reproduce them in the future, and they can present the document's contents in a different medium, e.g. with interactive controls. This paper describes a software framework for authoring and distributing these integrated, dynamic documents that contain text, code, data, and any auxiliary content needed to recreate the computations. The documents are …
Reproducible Research: A Bioinformatics Case Study, Robert Gentleman
Reproducible Research: A Bioinformatics Case Study, Robert Gentleman
Bioconductor Project Working Papers
While scientific research and the methodologies involved have gone through substantial technological evolution the technology involved in the publication of the results of these endeavors has remained relatively stagnant. Publication is largely done in the same manner today as it was fifty years ago. Many journals have adopted electronic formats, however, their orientation and style is little different from a printed document. The documents tend to be static and take little advantage of computational resources that might be available. Recent work, Gentleman and Temple Lang (2004), suggests a methodology and basic infrastructure that can be used to publish documents in …