R devel - Jun 2010 - Package development process?

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.

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Spencer Graves, PE, PhD
President and Chief Operating Officer
Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc.
751 Emerson Ct.
San Jos?, CA 95126
ph:  408-655-4567

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Spencer Graves
<spencer.graves at 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
Perl has CPAN and TeX has CTAN.  Ruby has RubyGems.

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.graves at 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 Jos?, CA 95126
> ph: ?408-655-4567
>
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