Hi SWORD folks, I tried a couple times to post the message below to http://support.rstudio.org/help/discussions/suggestions in late June but it never seemed to appear.
Rather than losing the time I spent typing it up, I thought I'd just post it here instead so I can link to it. I hope you find it interesting. Phil p.s. The message I was trying to post: Is there any interest in having RStudio support SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit)? (You can read more about SWORD at http://swordapp.org and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWORD_%28protocol%29 ) Christopher Gandrud and I have been discussing this on Twitter, but I thought I'd try to summarize. RStudio already has integrated support for Git, which is fantastic and has been highlighted in Christopher's recent paper: GitHub: A Tool for Social Data Set Development and Verification in the Cloud: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2199367 But what about permament archival of the data you're working with in RStudio? This line from http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/07/15/an-r-chitecture-for-reproducible-researchreportingdata-journalism/ struck me: > A recent addition, RStudio now integrates with RPubs.com, which means 1-click > publishing of RMarkdown/knitr'd HTML to a hosted website is possible. > Presumably, it wouldn't be too hard to extend RStudio so that publication to > other online environments could be supported. (Hmm, thinks... could RStudio > support publication using Github pages maybe, or something more general, such > as SWORD/Atom Publishing?!) Other publication routes have also been > demonstrated – for example, here's a recipe for publishing to WordPress from > R). What if publishing to an archive was only a few clicks away? I'll just include the last few tweets which end with this one https://twitter.com/ChrisGandrud/status/347133428208132096 - @philipdurbin Sword is nice. Probably big startup costs for many researchers. Git daily version control + sword deposit? - @ChrisGandrud yeah, I too was thinking combining both. What start up costs with SWORD though? Is it hard? What if Rstudio supported it? - @philipdurbin If @rstudioapp supported it (e.g. you could send an RStudio Project to a @swordapp repo) the startup costs would be low. Full disclosure: I'm working on implementing SWORD v2 on the server side for an open source application (Dataverse Network) in https://redmine.hmdc.harvard.edu/issues/3108 so I'm interested in a growing list of client side implementations: http://swordapp.org/sword-v2/sword-v2-implementations/ -- Philip Durbin Software Developer for http://thedata.org http://www.iq.harvard.edu/people/philip-durbin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ sword-app-tech mailing list sword-app-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sword-app-tech
