Programming Tools CTV
On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Max Kuhn wrote:
I've had a lot of requests for additions to the reproducible research task view that fall into a grey area (to me at least). For example, roxygen2 is a tool that broadly enable reproducibility but I see it more as a tool for better programming. I'm about to check in a new version of the task view that includes packrat and checkpoint, as they seem closer to reproducible research, but also feel like coding tools. There are a few other packages that many would find useful for better coding: devtools, testthat, lintr, codetools, svTools, rbenchmark, pkgutils, etc. This might be some overlap with the HPC task view. I would think that rJava, Rcpp and the like are better suited there but this is arguable. The last time I proposed something like this, Martin deftly convinced me to be the maintainer. It is probably better for everyone if we avoid that on this occasion. * Does anyone else see the need for this? * What other packages fit into this bin? * Would anyone like to volunteer?
Max, thanks for the suggestion. We had a somewhat related proposal on R-help from Luca Braglia a couple of months ago, suggesting a "Package Development" task view: https://mailman.stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2014-July/069454.html He put up some ideas on Github: https://github.com/lbraglia/PackageDevelopmentTaskView When Luca asked me (ctv maintainer) and Dirk (HPC task view maintainer) for feedback off-list, I replied that it is important that task views are focused in order to be useful and maintainable. My feeling was that "PackageDevelopment" was too broad and also "ProgrammingTools" is still too board, I think. This could mean a lot of things/tools to a lot of people. But maybe it would be to factor out some aspect that is sharp and clear(er)? Or split it up into bits where there are (more or less) objectively clear criteria for what goes in and what does not? Best, Z
Thanks, Max
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