Ravi Varadhan <rvaradhan <at> jhmi.edu> writes: > > "The decision about whether it belongs in a package or in base R is > about who should maintain the code." > > Ok. I understand it now. > > Thanks, > Ravi. >
A point that may not have been made (sorry if it was and I missed it): A better question might be how packages get added to the *recommended* package list (rather than how code gets added to "base R"). Of the 16 recommended packages, 2 are maintained by R-core itself, 12 by various R-core members acting as individuals (I assume), and 2 by non-R-core people. It seems that if a contributed package sticks around long enough and proves itself sufficiently useful and of sufficiently high quality (and well enough maintained), that it could then be suggested as a recommended package. i1 <- installed.packages() i2 <- i1[!is.na(i1[,"Priority"]),] ff <- function(x) table(sapply(x[,"Package"],maintainer)) ff(i2[i2[,"Priority"]=="base",]) R Core Team <[email protected]> 12 ff(i2[i2[,"Priority"]=="recommended",]) Brian Ripley <[email protected]> 7 Deepayan Sarkar <[email protected]> 2 Doug and Martin <[email protected]> 1 Luke Tierney <[email protected]> 1 Martin Maechler <[email protected]> 1 R-core <[email protected]> 1 R-core <[email protected]> 1 Simon Wood <[email protected]> 1 Terry Therneau <[email protected]> 1 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
