I think you are confusing package and function here. Plus some of the R Core packages, that you mention, contain functions that should probably be replaced by functions with better implementation from packages on CRAN.
Best regards Morgan On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 15:22 Joris Meys, <jorism...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 3:55 PM Morgan Morgan <morgan.email...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> How do you prove usefulness of a feature? >> Do you have an example of a feature that has been added after proving to >> be >> useful in the package space first? >> >> Thank you, >> Morgan >> > > The parallel package (a base package like utils, stats, ...) was added as > a drop-in replacement of the packages snow and multicore for parallel > computing. That's one example, but sure there's more. > > Kind regards > Joris > > -- > Joris Meys > Statistical consultant > > Department of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling > Ghent University > Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Gent (Belgium) > > <https://maps.google.com/?q=Coupure+links+653,%C2%A0B-9000+Gent,%C2%A0Belgium&entry=gmail&source=g> > > ----------- > Biowiskundedagen 2018-2019 > http://www.biowiskundedagen.ugent.be/ > > ------------------------------- > Disclaimer : http://helpdesk.ugent.be/e-maildisclaimer.php > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
