Title: revisit: a Workflow Tool for Data Science,
Abstract: In recent years there has been widespread concern in the scientific community
over a reproducibility crisis. Among the major causes that have been identified
is statistical: In many scientific research the statistical analysis (including
data preparation) suffers from a lack of transparency and methodological
problems, major obstructions to reproducibility. The revisit package aims
toward remedying this problem, by generating a "software paper trail" of the
statistical operations applied to a dataset. This record can be "replayed" for
verification purposes, as well as be modified to enable alternative analyses.
The software also issues warnings of certain kinds of potential errors in
statistical methodology, again related to the reproducibility issue.