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Analysis updated 2026-07-17 · repo last pushed 2017-12-11

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TL;DR

Presentation slides on five practices, rerun, repeat, reproduce, reuse, replicate, for making scientific code trustworthy and reusable.

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    What it does
      Explains five R practices
      Academic presentation slides
      Links to real code elsewhere
    Tech stack
      TeX
    Use cases
      Learn reproducibility habits
      Present to a research team
      Improve code trustworthiness
    Audience
      Researchers
      Data scientists

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Why would anyone build with this?

REASON 1

Learn five practices for making scientific code more reproducible and trustworthy.

REASON 2

Present these ideas to a lab or research team to improve coding habits.

REASON 3

Reference the talk when writing about reproducibility in a paper.

REASON 4

Understand how to reuse and replicate code across different research projects.

What's in the stack?

TeX

How it stacks up

rougier/rerun-repeat-reproduce-reuse-replicate100/learnxinyminutes-docsjens-ox/zusammenfassung-la1
Stars111
LanguageTeXTeXTeX
Last pushed2017-12-112016-06-262019-03-03
MaintenanceDormantDormantDormant
Setup difficultyeasyeasyeasy
Complexity1/51/51/5
Audienceresearcherdevelopergeneral

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How do you spin it up?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

This is a slide deck, not runnable code, the actual code lives in a separate repository.

Yoink these prompts

Prompt 1
Summarize the five R practices (rerun, repeat, reproduce, reuse, replicate) described in these slides.
Prompt 2
Help me apply these reproducibility practices to my own research code.
Prompt 3
Explain why reproducibility practices matter for scientific code according to this presentation.
Prompt 4
Show me where I could find the actual code this presentation refers to.

Frequently asked questions

wtf is rerun-repeat-reproduce-reuse-replicate?

Presentation slides on five practices, rerun, repeat, reproduce, reuse, replicate, for making scientific code trustworthy and reusable.

What language is rerun-repeat-reproduce-reuse-replicate written in?

Mainly TeX. The stack also includes TeX.

Is rerun-repeat-reproduce-reuse-replicate actively maintained?

Dormant — no commits in 2+ years (last push 2017-12-11).

How hard is rerun-repeat-reproduce-reuse-replicate to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is rerun-repeat-reproduce-reuse-replicate for?

Mainly researcher.

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