Single-button reproducibility: The what, the why, and the how

One of the initial visions for computational reproducibility dates back to the early 90s, where Claerbout and Karrenbach imagined researchers able to reproduce their results “a year or more later with a single button.” In other words, they hoped it would be possible to run a single command to transform any study’s raw data into figures, tables, and finally a complete research article. We never…