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Are There Too Many R Packages?

The number of R extension packages available from the CRAN
repository has tremendously grown over the past 10 years. We look at this
phenomenon in more detail, and discuss some of its consequences. In particular,
we argue that the statistical computing community needs a more common
understanding of software quality, and better domain-specific semantic
resources.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:VIENNA/oai:epub.wu-wien.ac.at:3814
Date January 2012
CreatorsHornik, Kurt
PublisherAustrian Statistical Society, c/o Bundesanstalt Statistik Austria
Source SetsWirtschaftsuniversität Wien
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle, PeerReviewed
Formatapplication/pdf
Relationhttp://www.stat.tugraz.at/AJS/ausg121/121Hornik.pdf, http://www.stat.tugraz.at/AJS/Editions.html, http://epub.wu.ac.at/3814/

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