The case for freezing CRAN
On 03/20/2014 07:48 AM, Michael Weylandt wrote:
On Mar 20, 2014, at 8:19, "Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D." <therneau at mayo.edu> wrote:
There is a central assertion to this argument that I don't follow:
At the end of the day most published results obtained with R just won't be reproducible.
This is a very strong assertion. What is the evidence for it?
If I've understood Jeroen correctly, his point might be alternatively phrased as "won't be reproducED" (i.e., end user difficulties, not software availability). Michael
That was my point as well. Of the 30+ Sweave documents that I've produced I can't think of one that will change its output with a new version of R. My 0/30 estimate is at odds with the "nearly all" assertion. Perhaps I only do dull things? Terry T.