Tools for Storing, Restoring and Searching for R Objects • archivist

Everything that exists in R is an object. archivist is an R package that stores copies of all objects along with their metadata. It helps to manage and recreate objects with final or partial results from data analysis.

Use the archivist to record every result, to share these results with future you or with others, to search through repository of objects created in the past but needed now.

Installation

To get started, install the latest version of archivist from CRAN:

install.packages("archivist")

or from GitHub:

devtools::install_github("pbiecek/archivist")

Cheatsheet

The cheatsheet

Citation

To cite the archivist in publications please use:

Biecek P and Kosinski M (2017). “archivist: An R Package for Managing,
Recording and Restoring Data Analysis Results.” _Journal of Statistical
Software_, *82*(11), pp. 1-28. doi: 10.18637/jss.v082.i11 (URL:
http://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v082.i11).

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Article{,
    title = {{archivist}: An {R} Package for Managing, Recording and Restoring Data Analysis Results},
    author = {Przemyslaw Biecek and Marcin Kosinski},
    journal = {Journal of Statistical Software},
    year = {2017},
    volume = {82},
    number = {11},
    pages = {1--28},
    doi = {10.18637/jss.v082.i11},
  }