Enables Reproducible Research and Literate Programming
A research publication based on R computation is not the scholarly contribution itself; it is merely an advertisement of the scholarly contribution. The actual scholarly contribution is comprised of data, a software environment, and the complete set of instructions used to generate its figures and tables. Inferences for R enables reproducible research by giving the reader direct access to both data and software code, allowing them to thoroughly explore and reproduce the scholarly contribution. This paradigm is based on the ideas of literate programming and literate data analysis. And, Inference for R provides Inference Studio, an integrated development environment (IDE) analogous to Microsoft’s Visual Studio, which makes it easy to assemble and debug your R code.