[R] OFF TOPIC: Nature article on File Drawer Problem in Reserach

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2024-07-24T17:26:24Z

Bert,

Although the ?ticle was interesting, I have to wonder how much publishing there
has been in formal journals related to R, especially recently, that is of a
research variety.

I am thinking of an example and wonder if we picked something that is often
re-implemented by many parties such as ways of doing graphics or making and
manipulating things like variants of data.frames. If someone came up with some
new design, such as tibbles or data.table and hypothesized they would be better
in some ways, then that could be the basis for doing some serious testing and
perhaps publishing results. Sometimes it could just be a comparison of all kinds
of cases and a discussion of when one or the other might be better, but other
times, the hypothesis might be determined in advance to be looking for a
specific outcome and if wrong, publishing it fairly would let people know that
your guess was wrong!

I once had a chance to get an Erd?s number of two as my adviser later published
several times with Paul Erd?s, but I ended up proving the opposite of my
hypothesis, which was not really worthy of publishing! LOL!

I am curious where people go to see research papers in various aspects of
Computer Science, or in ones dedicated to specific languages or systems. Is
there the same publish or perish aspect in academia as for some older sciences
or is the field different in many ways and perhaps often seen as a helper in
other disciplines so you can publish elsewhere?

Some areas of the field like aspects of AI, might still be considered quite
active but perhaps other areas are seen as less worthy of much further analysis
and refinement. Unless actively being changed, where do programming languages
like R fit in?


-----Original Message-----
From: R-help <r-help-bounces at r-project.org> On Behalf Of Bert Gunter
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2024 10:44 AM
To: R-help <R-help at r-project.org>
Subject: [R] OFF TOPIC: Nature article on File Drawer Problem in Reserach

Again, this is off topic, not about statistics or R, but I think of
interest to many on this list. The title is:

"So you got a null result. Will anyone publish it?"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02383-9

Best to all,
Bert

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