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Re: Idea for a Collaboration Project

 

Yes, I am impressed at the R community.

There is http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/ReproducibleResearch.html

and rOpenSci http://ropensci.github.io/ which has spawned pyOpenSci
https://github.com/pyOpenSci

There are a lot of enthusiastic people (many of them involved in Software
Carpentry) who are participating in a lot of initiatives...


Mozilla Science Lab has been doing a lot, in
http://forum.mozillascience.org/t/code-review-project/22/ I suggested maybe
trying to work on a cookiecutter project for different types of research.

For doing reproducible research, trying to capture dependencies is very
tricky, so anything that helps with that would be valuable. People who are
pros at package management could certainly help there.

People who are pros at containers and virtual machines will also have
valuable insights.

There are custom distros for scientists, like neuro debian. I am more
enthusiastic about packages over custom distros.


On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 4:34 AM, Willem Ligtenberg <wligtenberg@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Just to pitch in on the R part, since that is my domain.
> Specifically for R a lot of code is shared through packages, either
> through CRAN, Bioconductor or sometimes githubs.
> Obviously, some people still keep code for themselves, but specifically R
> is doing a pretty good job at making code sharing easy.
>
> One initiative that I am aware of is:
> http://software-carpentry.org/index.html
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Willem
>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 7:08 AM, A. Mani <a.mani.cms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 5:18 AM, Walter Lapchynski <wxl@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > Sounds interesting, but I'm not sure I understand what you have in mind.
>>
>>
>> I meant we should have people exploring domain specific practices and
>> requirements (within the sciences).
>>
>> For example, a few days ago I posted a mail on aspects relating to
>> LaTeX- related work flows.
>>
>> I think there are many other work flows that can be the reason for
>> further customization.
>>
>> Consider the case of people doing machine learning on GNU/R.
>>
>> The relevant "views" is not the last word.
>>
>> People write their own code variants, but do not care to publish.
>>
>> There are far too many ways of implementing algorithms from scratch or
>> at some mixed level.
>>
>> We can have projects to help with the situation.
>>
>>
>> specify ...there are thousands more.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best
>>
>> A. Mani
>>
>>
>>
>> A. Mani
>> [Last_Name. First_Name Format]
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