From therneau at mayo.edu  Thu Mar 20 13:19:41 2014
From: therneau at mayo.edu (Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D.)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 07:19:41 -0500
Subject: [Rd] The case for freezing CRAN
Message-ID: <3dfcdc$fuu13r@ironport9.mayo.edu>

There is a central assertion to this argument that I don't follow:

> At the end of the day most published results obtained with R just won't be reproducible.

This is a very strong assertion. What is the evidence for it?

  I write a lot of Sweave/knitr in house as a way of documenting complex analyses, and a 
glm() based logistic regression looks the same yesterday as it will tomorrow.

Terry Therneau



[Rd] The case for freezing CRAN
Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D.