I second the motion for a Programming Tools CRAN Task View.
I would also think it could contain things like Rcpp, R6, etc.
-Greg
On Jan 22, 2015, at 10:20 AM, Max Kuhn <mxkuhn at gmail.com> 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?
Thanks,
Max