This is really interesting on several levels. Thanks for posting. Yours, Christian
Ken Mankoff writes: > Hi Org and GRASS lists, > > I just wanted to let these two lists know that I've just posted a paper > written in Org and using GRASS (text-mode) and Python for the analysis. My > goal was to create not just an open access publication, but a fully > reproducible publication. This is an early announcement, and the paper may > not pass peer review. > > The Supplemental Material is the Org file with all the code to generate the > document, beginning with downloading the 3rd party data that is input to our > analysis, the GRASS code to perform the analysis, and the Python code to > regenerate the figures. > > I don't think I did a great job on the reproducible part because I have a > highly customized .emacs, etc. All the information necessary to replicate the > work should be in the Supplemental Material, but it might not be easy to do > so. Anyway, I think it is a step in the right direction. > > To make it easier to reproduce... including my emacs.org seems overkill. > Including a Virtual Machine that contains everything, including my > ~/.emacs.d/ and all the software and data seems like the right thing to do, > but journals don't want to host a 20 GB VM with the publication. > > Thanks to people on these two lists who have developed the software and > helped me use it. > > -k. > > http://www.the-cryosphere-discuss.net/tc-2016-113/
