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  • George Hrabovsky April 20, 2012 @ 2:22 pm

    Why does software need to be open source? I use Mathematica, hardly open source, and the results are completely reproducible.

  • Tal Galili April 21, 2012 @ 10:24 am

    Hi Matt,
    I am glad you are sharing this article!

    May I share with you and your readers that THE open source language for statistical analysis (e.g: for doing science) is called R (see: http://www.r-project.org/).

    And that the leading blog aggregator for the R community is running on WordPress (see: http://www.r-bloggers.com/) with over 340 bloggers writing about the R software.

    With regards,
    Tal

  • Dave Doolin April 22, 2012 @ 8:53 pm

    I would go further: code producing scientific results for publication should have at *some* testing applied the code. Lab equipment is calibrated and tested, why not the software equivalent.

    Disclaimer: I have a dog in this fight.

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