eschulte / data-wrapper

wrap text data in a portable script to share both data and analysis

Data Wrapper

wrap text data in a portable script to share both data and analysis

• Well suited to tabular or relational data with multiple categories.
• An easy way to share both data and analysis (Reproducible Research).
• Easier than continually re-learning how to do simple analytic tasks.
• Very portable, written entire in bash with two optional dependencies.
  1. R for statistical analysis
  2. gnuplot for graphical display of data

Installation

Download the script (data-wrapper) and place it in your PATH.

Usage

1. Run data-wrapper on your file of tab-separated data passing in a name for each column.

    data-wrapper DATAFILE [COLUMN NAMES]
   

2. This will result in the creation of an executable file named DATAFILE-viewer. This file holds all of your data wrapped in a script which provides numerous views into the data. For more information on usage and available outputs and analysis call DATAFILE-viewer -h.