Hi, On 01/14/2013 05:04 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: [...]
Maybe it's a sign of a relative maturity of R that we don't have a particular "milestone"-like agenda.
There are many ways one can interpret the lack of an official roadmap for a software project. However "maturity" is certainly not one I would have thought of. But maybe I'm biased by having followed to many other Open Source projects that do have a roadmap, regardless of whether they consider themselves mature or not.
Typically, most things can be supplied as packages - the only reason to touch the core of R itself is if it is something that cannot be done as a package,
Or because it could be (and actually was) done as a package but for some reasons it feels like it belongs to the core? Examples: parallel, bitops, getParseData, etc...
and given R's modularity that is fortunately not very often the case.
Modularity would be even better if more things *in core* were made generics. For example why the stuff in parallel was not made generic? (at least S3 generic) Thanks, H.
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