16  Miscellaneous

16.1 Text files

  • Text files should end with a newline character (i.e., a blank line)

    • If you see the following red icon at the end of a file on GitHub, simply press ↵ Enter at the end of the file (i.e., in this case after the word Catalog), resave, commit, and the red icon should be gone

16.2 Python and R versions

  • The versions of Python and R in their respective OpenSAFELY Docker containers are (as of 15th February 2023):

    • Python 3.8.10
    • R 4.0.5 (was R 4.0.2 upto and including 15/02/2023)

  • The Python and R code run within their respective Docker containers. Hence the version of Python and R used to run your analyses are the versions of Python and R in these Docker containers and not the versions of Python and R on your computer

  • To see the Python version number insert in your study_definition.py

    import sys
print(sys.implementation.version)

  • To see the R version number insert into one of your R analysis scripts

    print(R.version.string)

16.3 Code review

The Tidyteam (i.e., of the tidyverse, tidymodels, and mlops) code review principles are available here bear in mind the comments relate more to coding packages rather than analysis scripts.