[Axiom-mail] Re: Axiom, Rosetta and Quantian

[A.J. Rossini]

Dirk Eddelbuettel <address@hidden> writes:

>> 
>> As an interesting aside, one of my religious beliefs about this whole
>> Computational Mathematics area is that we have to start combining the
>> research papers with the code. The first cut I've made at this is to
>> use Knuth's literate programming tools (actually, Norman Ramsey's 
>> noweb version). I believe that unless we keep the research with the
>> code we won't be able to maintain and modify these systems. 
>
> You'd get on well with Tony Rossini who is also a huge fan of lit.prog. and
> noweb :)

Correct.  Best reference is my 2001 conference paper on Literate
Statistical Analysis, which formed the basis for Sweave and a general
movement in this area.

 http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/Conferences/DSC-2001/Proceedings/Rossini.pdf

and 

 http://www.bepress.com/uwbiostat/paper194/


> R (www.r-project.org) has a most useful extension called Sweave you may like
> (do some casual googling). Works in Quantian as shipped.
>
>> What's that got to do with Quantian? Two things are related.
>> 
>> Dr. Traverso at the University of Pisa in Italy is trying to create
>> a Journal based on a similar idea where you submit papers that include
>> the source code. Quantian would be an ideal way to "provide a base"
>> for people to execute the embedded code. Ideally you could just 
>> "drag and drop" the paper onto one of the systems and run the code but
>> that is a long way in the future.

You need to have him look at the Compendium concept (Literate
Statistical Analysis extended to be a package including data, code,
and description), which is a nice idea (from Robert Gentleman and
Duncan Temple-Lang).

No reference yet, but soon...

best,
-tony

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