On the Programmatic Generation of Reproducible Documents

On the Programmatic Generation of Reproducible Documents

reproducibility, reproducible documents, data presentation.

Reproducible document standards, like R Markdown, facilitate the programmatic creation of documents whose content is itself programmatically generated. While programmatic content alone may not be sufficient for a rendered document since it does not
include prose (content generated by an author to provide context, a narrative, etc.) programmatic generation can provide substantial efficiencies for structuring and constructing
documents. This paper explores the programmatic generation of reproducible documents
by distinguishing components that can be created by computational means from those
requiring human-generation, providing guidelines for the generation of these documents,
and identifying a use case in clinical trial reporting. These concepts and use case are
illustrated through the listdown package for the R programming environment, which is is
currently available on the Comprehensive R Archive Network.

Michael Kane

https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v103i08

Yale University

July 2022

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