Budapest BI 2015

Open science needs not only reproducible research but also accessible final and partial results. During the speech I will present the most valuable applications of the archivist package. The archivist is an R package for data analysis results management, which helps in managing, sharing, storing, linking and searching for R objects. The archivist package automatically retrieves the object’s meta-data and creates a rich structure that allows for easy management of calculated R objects. The archivist package extends the reproducible research paradigm by creating new ways to retrieve and validate previously calculated objects. These functionalities also result in a variety of opportunities such as: sharing R objects within reports/articles by adding hooks to R objects in table/figure captions; interactive exploration of object repositories; caching function calls; retrieving object’s pedigree along with information on how the object was created; automated tracking of performance of models.