Misadventures with Reproducibility in R
R Ladies Melbourne, 29 Nov 2022
Why reproducibility?
An illustration of reasons why we should care about working reproducibly from The Turing Way, Guide for Reproducible Research
Tidy data & code
“Like families, tidy datasets are all alike but every messy dataset is messy in its own way” - {tidyr}: Tidy data
“Good coding style is like correct punctuation: you can manage without it, butitsuremakesthingseasiertoread.” - The tidyverse style guide
Jump in here:
Version Control
A version control system, or VCS, tracks the history of changes as people and teams collaborate on projects together. As developers make changes to the project, any earlier version of the project can be recovered at any time.
Command Line
“The command line is a tool for talking to your operating system (e.g., macOS, Windows, etc.) using text instead of by moving around a mouse and clicking on things”
- The Command Line from Practical Data Science by Nick Eubank
Collaboration
From The Turing Way, Guide for Collaboration:
The Turing Way project illustration by Scriberia. Used under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3332807.
Environments
Ways of capturing computational environments from The Turing Way, Guide for Reproducible Research
Possible starting points:
Testing and Validation
The Turing Way project illustration by Scriberia. Used under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3332807.
Motivation and guidance on testing:
Thanks for listening!
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Some shameless plugs:
- The Random Sample Podcast
{conformr}, an opinionated toolkit for data harmonisation- Digital Garden, built with Quarto
