Abstract
The stashR package (a Set of Tools for Administering Shared Repositories) for R implements a basic versioned key-value style database where character string keys are associated with data values. Using the S4 classes 'localDB' and 'remoteDB', and associated methods, versioned key-value databases can be either created locally on the user's computer or accessed remotely via the Internet. The stashR package can enhance reproducible research by providing a 'localDB' database format for the caching of computations which can subsequently be stored on the Internet. To reproduce a particular computation, a reader can access the 'remoteDB' database and obtain the associated R objects.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 247-254 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Computational Statistics |
Volume | 24 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 2009 |
Keywords
- Data distribution
- Database
- Reproducible research
- Version control
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Statistics and Probability
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
- Computational Mathematics