In the author guidelines they clearly state that data deposition of all the analyzed data is mandatory but when l am looking for data from recent papers in this journal l never find it...
there is possibilities to extract from PDF data and text. The R packages pdftools or tm could be of interest. However, I think it is still some manual work to do.
Thanks for the people upvoting my question!
I extract data from PDF all the time (using imagej). My problem is related to data from multiple regression where there are no figures showing the raw data points (just results in terms of coefficients, p values, aicc and so on). I believe that this data should be transparent...
oh, I see. Generally, not good news:
http://bib.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/01/28/bib.bbq084.abstract
and similar papers that outline that reproducibiltiy is not common even it should, i.e. data + code + analysis results or mostly not open-access even when they should.
After four emails and 20 days I finally received a replay from nature: "it’s a policy of publication with us that the authors of published papers make the raw data available to anyone that asks". So it is possible to ask via the journal (using the website), the problem is that the most common response I get when asking for data from old papers is "it use to be on my former computer but it is not working anymore..."
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