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VCR Software Installation
Publishers
If you are interested in operating a public VCR repository, please contact vcr at stanford dot edu.
Researchers
Step by step installation instructions
Download the VCR plugin for your computation platform:
Currently available are plugins for Matlab, R and Python.
Extract the vcr_plugin directory. Consider adding it to the platform path.
To check your installation and network settings, in your platform go to the directory vcr_plugin and type the commmand
repository vcr-stat.stanford.edu/public
(or use the URL of your private VCR repository).
That’s it. See the user’s guide for help and troubleshooting.
After you install a VCR plugin for your computation platform, and learn three new commands,
any result you create with your usual computations will be verifiable (namely, have a VRI). The
associated computation content will be automatically and securely submitted to your private VCR repository or to a public
reposiory of your choice.
The VCR plugin for your computation platform lets you import data, code and results from any VCR computation content
you have access to. In particular, by including the VRIs in your code as if they were local variable names,
you can treat variables from published computation content as if they were declared in your program.
See the researcher’s tutorial for details.
If a plugin for your computation platform doesn’t yet exist, why not Write One Yourself?
You can operate a secure, private VCR repository for yourself, your research group, or your community.
Contact vcr at stanford dot edu for details.
Authors
Step by step installation instructions
Download the VCR plugin for your word processor / presentation editor.
Currently, only a LaTeX plugin is available.
Extract the vcr_doc_plugin directory.
To check your installation and network settings, compile the example document from the author’s tutorial.
That’s it. See the user’s guide for help and troubleshooting.
After you install a VCR plugin for your word processor / presentation editor, and take the short author tutorial, you’ll
be able to include verifiable results (branded with their VRI and barcode) in your documents and presentations.
It’s easier than importing graphics files - you just provide the result’s VRI instead of any local filename.
In documents you create, any result with a VRI is a hyperlink that readers can click to access the computation content.
When you include results with VRIs in poster or slides, anyone with a smartphone can access the
computation content you describe by scanning the QR barcode form of the VRI.
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