Reproducible environments

Being able to create a reproducible environment is probably one of the biggest challenges when it comes to reproducibility.

When reproducing the results of a research paper you would like to use the same environment as was used when writing the paper. This can be achieved by publishing a Docker image.

We recommend that you publish a docker image every time you create a new version of your code (see Tagging specific versions of your repository for more info about how to create a version).

You can read more about how to publish a Docker image in Packages and you can see an example Dockerfile in the example-paper repo.

Language specific dependencies

You should also list the language specific packages you used to generate the results for your paper. In python these are typically listed in a requirements.txt file.

To export the exact dependencies in python you use the following command

pip freeze > requirements.txt

conda

TODO: Write about how to convert a conda environment to a Dockerfile