Hi Joe, I have read your question with great interest. I am a little bit astonished to read about your project. There is a big national institute in Germany called GESIS (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/GESIS_%E2%80%93_Leibniz-Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sozialwissenschaften) which does the same job you are trying to set-up since 1986 now. You could try to exchange ideas with them.
Your subject is very complex with regard to reproducible research. You might want to have a look at (1) https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/ReproducibleResearch.html (2) Gandrud, Christopher: Reproducible Research with R and R Studio (https://www.amazon.com/Reproducible-Research-Studio-Second-Chapman/dp/1498715370) Kind regards Georg > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. März 2017 um 10:44 Uhr > Von: "Joe Gain" <joe.g...@uni-konstanz.de> > An: R-help@r-project.org > Cc: bwfdm-i...@lists.kit.edu > Betreff: [R] Archive format > > Hello, > > we are collecting information on the subject of research data management > in German on the webplatform: > > www.forschungsdaten.info > > One of the topics, which we are writing about, is how to *archive* data. > Unfortunately, none of us in the project is an expert with respect to R > and so I would like to ask the list, what they recommend? A related > question is to do with the sharing of data. We have already asked some > academics, who have basically replied that they don't really know other > than to strongly recommend a plain text format. > > We would also like to know, if members of the list recommend converting > formats from commercial software such as S-Plus, Terr, SPSS etc. to an > R-compatible format for long term archivation? Are there any general > rules and best practices, when it comes to archiving (and sharing) > statistical data and statistical programs? > > Any comments would be much appreciated! > Joe > > -- > B 1003 > Kommunikations-, Informations-, Medienzentrum (KIM) > Universitaet Konstanz > > t: ++49-7531-883234 > e: joe.g...@uni-konstanz.de > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
