Hi Spencer, I think it is the emphasis on documentation that makes the R development process unique. Many other languages have equivalents to CRAN and R-forge - few others require the attention to documentation that R does.
Hadley On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Spencer Graves <spencer.gra...@structuremonitoring.com> wrote: > Hello, All: > > > What thoughts might you have on "The R Software Package Development > Process"? > > > I'm looking for ideas, materials, references, and / or collaborators > for an article on this topic to be submitted to the Communications of the > ACM. My limited experience with other languages such as Matlab and Python > suggests that R may be fairly unique with CRAN and this accompanying package > development process -- and users of other languages might benefit from > emulating R in this regard. We have an immediate deadline of Sept. 15, when > Sundar and I are scheduled to speak on this topic for the San Francisco Bay > Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. > > > So far my literature search for comparable capabilities for other > languages have produced essentially nothing comparable.(a) Sundar and I > added a section on "Selected Repositories" to the Wikipedia "Software > repository" entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_repository). > > > Thanks, > Spencer Graves > > ################## > (a) I have material discussed by Merijn de Jonge, Eindhoven University of > Technology on "Package-Based Software Development" at the 29th Euromicro > Conference (EUROMICRO'03), > Belek-Antalya, Turkey, September 01-September 06 > (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/EURMIC.2003.1231570). > I'm also familiar with material by Friedrich Leisch, Sundar and I on > "Creating R Packages" available as contributed documentation from CRAN. > > -- > Spencer Graves, PE, PhD > President and Chief Operating Officer > Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. > 751 Emerson Ct. > San José, CA 95126 > ph: 408-655-4567 > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
