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@@ -295,14 +295,14 @@ An article about computational science in a scientific publication is
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not the scholarship itself, it is merely advertising of the
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scholarship. The actual scholarship is the complete software
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development environment and the complete set of instructions which
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-generated the figures.
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+generated the figures. -- D. Donoho
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#+end_quote
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--- D. Donoho
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-[[http://reproducibleresearch.net/index.php/Main_Page][Reproducible Research]] (RR) is the practice of distributing the data
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-and functions referenced in a paper into the paper itself, so that
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-each copy of the paper is not only a document describing the research,
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-but is also an executable reproducing the research.
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+[[http://reproducibleresearch.net/index.php/Main_Page][Reproducible Research]] (RR) is the practice of distributing along with
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+an article of research all data, code, and tools required to reproduce
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+the results discussed in the paper. As such the paper becomes not
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+only a document describing the research but a complete laboratory
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+reproducing the research.
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Org-mode already has exceptional support for [[http://orgmode.org/manual/Exporting.html#Exporting][exporting to html and
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LaTeX]]. Org-babel makes Org-mode a tool for RR by *activating* the
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@@ -313,10 +313,10 @@ recreate your results, and perform their own analysis.
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Existing RR tools like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweave][Sweave]] provide for the embedding of [[http://www.r-project.org/][R]] code into
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LaTeX documents. While this is very useful, such documents often
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-still require a large degree of "glue" in the form of external shell
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-scripts, python code, and Makefiles. To my knowledge Org-babl is the
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-only RR tool which allows multiple languages and data to coexist and
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-cooperate inside of a single document.
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+still require a large degree of "glue code" in the form of external
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+shell scripts, python scripts, and Makefiles. To my knowledge
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+Org-babl is the only RR tool which allows multiple languages and data
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+to coexist and cooperate inside of a single document.
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* Literate programming
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:PROPERTIES:
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Eric Schulte