From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-03-16T00:04:49+09:00
Subject: Re: [slightly OT] New O'Reilly book features Matz

Hi,

In message "Re: [slightly OT] New O'Reilly book features Matz"
    on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:47:48 +0900, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@cesmail.net> writes:

|programming". It was intended to get the programmer to create the 
|documentation hand in hand with the code. However, literate programming 
|has evolved into a concept I find very appealing -- so called 
|"reproducible research." As practiced by the bio-informatics community 
|in the R language, the core concept is something called a compendium. A 
|compendium is a software package, which contains all of the code and 
|data required to reproduce the research, including the tools to write 
|the paper. The way it's done in R, and the way it could be done in Ruby, 
|the author creates a collection of source and data files. The literate 
|programming process of _weaving_ produces the document -- in the case of 
|R, this includes running R scripts that do the analysis, create the 
|figures, and so on.
|
|I think what I really would like to see is some combination of 
|test/behavior driven development and reproducible research. In short, 
|the programmer develops the tests, the software *and* the documentation 
|concurrently.

Interesting idea.  Where can I find more information for compendium
(in R)?

							matz.