On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Aaron Mackey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Cook, Malcolm <[email protected]> wrote: > >> * where do the dragons lurk >> > > webs of interconnected dynamically loaded libraries, identical versions of > R compiled with different BLAS/LAPACK options, etc. Go with the VM if you > really, truly, want this level of exact reproducibility.
Sounds like the best bet -- maybe tools like vagrant might be useful here: http://www.vagrantup.com ... or maybe they're overkill? Haven't really checked it out myself too much, my impression is that these tools (vagrant, chef, puppet) are built to handle such cases. I'd imagine you'd probably need a location where you can grab the precise (versioned) packages for the things you are specifying, but ... -steve -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Weill Medical College of Cornell University Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
