Are you using programming languages such as R or Python? Are you sometimes struggling to work on a project and get the same results from a different computer or when working with collaborators? Are you still searching for an optimal way to keep track of your computational environments and packages versions to make your computational environments reproducible?

In this session, we will start with a brief introduction showcasing the benefits of reproducible computational environments and the most commonly used environment manager tools. We will then watch short demonstrations of these different tools from RROx community members and guest, before we discuss pros and cons of each presented tool with all attendees.

28 Feb 2022, 15:00-16:15 GMT, online

Demonstrations (45 min):

• Sarah Gibson – Introduction
• Kevin Rue Albrecht and Matt Jaquiery – Renv (R package to manage R dependencies)
• Charlotte George – Conda (multi-language package manager)
• Martin Robinson – Docker (containerisation of complex environments, captures Operating System itself)
• Sarah Gibson – Binder (automate environment builds and ship environments)

Discussion (30 min)

This session will not be recorded, but all presentations will be prerecorded and made available on the OSF repository prior to the session: https://osf.io/xp9zn/. Auto-captioning will be available in the live session.

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