4  Miscellaneous

4.1 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

4.2 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)