Re: [R] The Quality & Accuracy of R

2009-01-26 Thread Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)
That's a great idea. I know of no commercial vendors who provide such detailed info. Bob -Original Message- From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:ggrothendi...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 7:52 PM To: Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) Cc: R-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] The Qu

Re: [R] The Quality & Accuracy of R

2009-01-26 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
It would be possible to develop tools to develop code coverage statistics quantifying the percent of the code that the tests exercise. On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) wrote: > Hi All, > > > > We have all had to face skeptical colleagues asking if software made by > volu

Re: [R] The Quality & Accuracy of R

2009-01-24 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Bob, Your point is well taken, but it also raises a number of issues (post-install testing to name one) for which the R-devel list would be more suitable. Could we move the discussion there? -Peter Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) wrote: Hi All, We have all had to face skeptical colle

[R] The Quality & Accuracy of R

2009-01-23 Thread Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)
Hi All, We have all had to face skeptical colleagues asking if software made by volunteers could match the quality and accuracy of commercially written software. Thanks to the prompting of a recent R-help thread, I read, "R: Regulatory Compliance and Validation Issues, A Guidance Document for t