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Validation of R
2 messages · TyagiAnupam@aol.com, A.J. Rossini
TyagiAnupam at aol.com writes:
In a message dated 4/21/03 3:07:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, pgilbert at bank-banque-canada.ca writes:
There may be less work involved in doing (un-official) validation than there is in advertising how much is actually being done. Perhaps the simplest approach is for individuals to put together packages of tests with descriptions that explain the extent of the testing which is done, and then submit the packages to CRAN.
Another suggestion to address the issue of validation in the long-term: 1) "Validation" of scientific research takes the form of peer-review, perhaps it is possible to come-up with a similar (not same) process for publishing software, while maintaining the openness.
Note that the journal of statistical software (http://www.jstatsoft.org/) already does this.
2) We can also think of contribution to open source software as academic contribution
We can. I am personally aware of at least one major statistics department that has decided that this is definitely not the case (and aware of another that has). best, -tony
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