useR!2017

This o2r team members Daniel and Edzer had the pleasure to participate in the largest conference of R developers and users, useR!2017 in Brüssels, Belgium.

Daniel Nüst @nordholmen presenting containerit, creates a docker img from an R session to archive reproducibly @o2r_project @cboettig pic.twitter.com/o65O8s8jXY

— Edzer Pebesma (@edzerpebesma) 6. Juli 2017

Daniel presented a new R extension package, containerit, in the Data reproducibility session. It can…

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C4RR workshop in Cambridge

Today o2r team member Daniel had the pleasure to present work from the o2r project at the two day Docker Containers for Reproducible Research Workshop held in Cambridge, UK…

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Generating Dockerfiles for reproducible research with R

This post is the draft of the vignette for a new R package by o2r team members Matthias and Daniel. Find the original file in the package repository on GitHub.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Creating a Dockerfile
• 3. Including resources
• 4. Image metadata
• 5. Further customization
• 6. CLI
• 7. Challenges
• 8. Conclusions and future work
• Metadata

1. Introduction

Even though R is designed for open and reproducible research, users who want to share their work with others are facing challenges. Sharing merely the R script or R Markdown document should warrant reproducibility, but many analyses rely on additional resources and specific third party software as well. An R script may…

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