Journals

Code in journals, that is, code you would type to do some programmatic operation in say R or Python, is kind of a mess to say the least. Okay, so you can SEE code in papers, but code is not formatted in a way that facilites reuse. If an author in a paper writes out some code for software they create, or an analysis they do in the paper, wouldn’t it be nice for a reader to be able to copy and paste that code directly into whatever environment that code should execute in, and actually work....