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[100] Groundhog 2.0: Further addressing the threat R poses to reproducible research

Posted on April 8, 2022April 9, 2022 by Uri Simonsohn

About a year ago I wrote Colada[95], a post on the threat R poses to reproducible research. The core issue is the 'packages'. When using R, you can run library(some_package) and R can all of a sudden scrape a website, cluster standard errors, maybe even help you levitate. The problem is that packages get updated…

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[95] Groundhog: Addressing The Threat That R Poses To Reproducible Research

Posted on January 5, 2021June 26, 2023 by Uri Simonsohn

R, the free and open source program for statistical computing, poses a substantial threat to the reproducibility of published research. This post explains the problem and introduces a solution. The Problem: Packages R itself has some reproducibility problems (see example in this footnote [1]), but the big problem is its packages: the addon scripts that…

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