Table of Contents

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• Introduction
  • The case for reproducibility
• Design rationale
  • Running example
  • How to organise the workflow?
  • Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs)
• Introduction to Waf
  • The configure phase
  • Specifying dependencies and the build phase
  • The installation phase
  • A closer look at the build phase
  • Concluding notes on Waf
• Organisation
  • Directory structure
  • Project paths
  • Specifying project paths in the main wscript file
  • Usage of the project paths within wscript files
  • Usage of the project paths in substantial code
• Getting started
  • Basic steps
  • Starting a new project
  • Porting an existing project
  • Feedback welcome!
• Project-specific Program Environments
  • Basic steps
  • Updating packages
  • Installing additional packages
• Frequently Answered Questions / Troubleshooting
  • LaTeX & Waf
  • Using Spyder with Waf
  • Stata packages
  • Stata failure: FileNotFoundError
  • Stata failure: missing file
• References