Hi, people other than the R developers can create packages which use R to do interesting things. I gather such packages are mostly distributed via CRAN, is that right? I am curious to know about the process for approving such packages.
How much effort goes into reviewing and vetting packages? Is there any process for approving packages before publication? Have any security problems ever been encountered in third-party packages? Does the package distributor make any statements as to guarantees about security or the lack of them? The reason I ask these questions is that we are debating package distribution over in the Maxima project, and I would just like to check in and see what you have encountered and how it has been resolved. Thanks for any light you can shed on this topic. best, Robert Dodier Maxima project administrator and developer ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
