Results from scientific research have to be reproducible to be trustworthy. We do not want a finding to be merely due to an isolated occurrence, e.g., only one specific laboratory researcher can produce the results on one specific day, and nobody else can produce the same results under the same conditions.
Reproducible research (RR) is one possible by-product of dynamic documents, but dynamic documents do not absolutely guarantee RR. Because there is usually no human intervention when we generate a report dynamically, it is likely to be reproducible since it is relatively easy to prepare the same software and hardware environment, which is everything we need to reproduce the results. However, the meaning of reproducibility ...
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