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 <mxk...@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 > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel