ABSTRACT
Research is often presented in very selective containers: slideshows, journal articles, books, or maybe even websites. These presentation documents announce a project’s findings and try to convince people that the results are correct. Though there is some debate over what are the necessary and sufficient conditions for a replication, research results are generally considered replicable if there is sufficient information available for independent researchers to make the same findings using the same procedures with new data. Reproducible research is one of the main components of science. Replicability has been a key part of scientific inquiry from perhaps the 1200s. Reproducible research cuts down on the amount of time scientists have to spend gathering data or developing procedures that have already been collected or figured out. Because researchers do not have to discover on their own things that have already been done, they can more quickly build on established findings and develop new knowledge.
