[GenABEL-dev] GenABEL tutorials to SVN

[L.C. Karssen]

Dear Yurii,

Great idea. I'm all for putting the tutorials in SVN. They are already
of high quality and together with our community we can make them even
better.
I do see the problem with the data sets, of course.

You are using Sweave, right? I'm wondering how much not having the data
will impact the possibility to tweak the document. Fixing small typos
will be alright, but before you know it a typo can mess up the LaTeX or
R code and since you can't compile the document to check it this may
lead to a lot of bug hunting for you, once you recompile it again.
That's the only potential problem I see.

How about also including the latest PDF version of the tutorial (I know,
this is against SVN's principles) each time you compile a version? This
way people who don't have the data know what it is supposed to look like
and could even help creating replacement data sets.


Best,

Lennart.

On 02/20/2013 04:35 PM, Yurii Aulchenko wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> For long time I was thinking that GenABEL tutorial(s) should be a part of
> the project - the same logic as with the code, with the same idea that in
> such case people can easily contribute by submitting patches and new
> pieces.
>
> The problem was (and still is) that the tutorial uses some data sets, which
> are not public domain, and it is quite awkward if we as the project start
> re-distributing them. Little by little I am trying to switch the whole
> thing to the use of only public and simulated data, but this is a lengthy
> process.
>
> So I thought that may be a good solution is to put the code of tutorials on
> our SVN; and put the data only if these are either public or simulated. Of
> cause in this way the tutorials will not be really "functional" (e.g. they
> would not compile right away), but this may become a starting point for
> others to build up something new and really
> free-for-all-to-use-and-contribute.
>
> Let me know what you think,
> best regards,
> Yurii
>
>
>
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