Rflow: Uma Abordagem de Reutilização de Workflows Estatísticos Legados

• José Antônio Pires do Nascimento UFRRJ / Embrapa
• Sérgio Manuel Serra da Cruz UFRRJ

Abstract

This paper presents an approach named RFlow, it aims to facilitate the management of statistical workflows and to mitigate limitations of statistical packages with regards to the management of provenance. RFlow is an approach that allows scientists to use legacy R scripts as meta-workflows enhancing their reuse, sharing, execution control with support of provenance metadata about the executions of such workflows.

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