R-UG members may find this interesting, since it uses Sweave/knitr/odfWeave. Email Caroline if you'd like to attend. JN INVITATION - Research Challenges Seminar Series presents John Nash on Friday, November 23, 2012 Location: DMS 6160 When: Fri 23 Nov 2012 11:00 AM ? 12:00 PM Organizer: Faucher, Caroline <Faucher at telfer.uottawa.ca> The Research Challenges Seminar Series invites you to a presentation given by John Nash, Assistant Professor at the Telfer School of Management. His presentation entitled Open-Source Tools for Sensible Report Updates will be held on: Friday, November 23, 2012 11:00 to 12:00 Telfer School of Management Desmarais Building DMS 6160 RSVP by Thursday, November 22, 2012 to Caroline Faucher (faucher at telfer.uOttawa.ca<mailto:faucher at telfer.uOttawa.ca> or 613-562-5800 extension 2986). Please note that there is limited seating available. The objective of the Research Challenges Seminar Series is to assist researchers in dealing with obstacles and questions that have arisen over the course of their research by offering a supportive, constructive environment to discuss their ?work in progress?. These presentations will allow researchers to benefit from the input and experience of their colleagues, while sharing their ongoing work with the seminar participants. Abstract This talk will introduce tools for automatically generating reports and graphs that need updating, such as quarterly budget/accounts, annual reports, or evolving graphs of measurements or statistics. The need to reduce onerous mouse or pointer operations and to avoid cut?and?past errors has been part of the motivation of the Microsoft OLE framework and similar ventures, but these approaches are complex and only work on one platform, so work is difficult to share. As a way to counter this, several tools have been developed, originally so important studies (clinical trials of drugs, for example) could be sure the report contained exactly the results it should, and could be revised properly as new patient data arrived. These relatively new tools, which come out of the ?Reproducible Research? effort of the R Project for Statistical Computing, are cross?platform, very powerful, and can be used collaboratively. They have evolved to have utility far beyond the scope of R. During the session, Dr. Nash will demonstrate how these tools can be used to prepare collaborative academic papers and books and show how they can do a better job of getting calculations and graphs updated in a way that vastly reduces the ?busy work? leading to the final product.
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