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not the scholarship itself, it is merely advertising of the
scholarship. The actual scholarship is the complete software
development environment and the complete set of instructions which
generated the figures.
generated the figures. -- D. Donoho
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-- D. Donoho
[[http://reproducibleresearch.net/index.php/Main_Page][Reproducible Research]] (RR) is the practice of distributing the data
and functions referenced in a paper into the paper itself, so that
each copy of the paper is not only a document describing the research,
but is also an executable reproducing the research.
[[http://reproducibleresearch.net/index.php/Main_Page][Reproducible Research]] (RR) is the practice of distributing along with
an article of research all data, code, and tools required to reproduce
the results discussed in the paper. As such the paper becomes not
only a document describing the research but a complete laboratory
reproducing the research.
Org-mode already has exceptional support for [[http://orgmode.org/manual/Exporting.html#Exporting][exporting to html and
LaTeX]]. Org-babel makes Org-mode a tool for RR by *activating* the
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Existing RR tools like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweave][Sweave]] provide for the embedding of [[http://www.r-project.org/][R]] code into
LaTeX documents. While this is very useful, such documents often
still require a large degree of "glue" in the form of external shell
scripts, python code, and Makefiles. To my knowledge Org-babl is the
only RR tool which allows multiple languages and data to coexist and
cooperate inside of a single document.
still require a large degree of "glue code" in the form of external
shell scripts, python scripts, and Makefiles. To my knowledge
Org-babl is the only RR tool which allows multiple languages and data
to coexist and cooperate inside of a single document.
* Literate programming
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