Thomas Lumley • 8/21/2021

Pictures of code are not code

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The author analyzes issues with R code from academic papers on statistical models, where code was published as images or PDFs, leading to typos and logical errors. The article details debugging attempts, points out a critical sign error in a likelihood function, and argues that non-copyable code formats harm scientific reproducibility and introduce avoidable mistakes.

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