From mxkuhn at gmail.com  Thu Jan 22 16:20:52 2015
From: mxkuhn at gmail.com (Max Kuhn)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:20:52 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Programming Tools CTV
Message-ID: <CAJ9CoWmTp_0UmL6UQ+iGBjbm-QXWxEyVsYWjhTWBj3YOXv3kKA@mail.gmail.com>

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



[Rd] Programming Tools CTV
Max Kuhn