From edd at debian.org  Fri Jan 23 18:55:41 2015
From: edd at debian.org (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:55:41 -0600
Subject: [Rd] Programming Tools CTV
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On 23 January 2015 at 05:55, Hadley Wickham wrote:
| I'd strongly second the notion of using github. The biggest advantage
| is that others can easily contribute changes through pull requests
| which lifts much of the burden from your shoulders.

That's "The Theory".

"The Practice" for eight weeks having the High-Performance Computing and
Finance Task Views there (in "source" and a rendered markdown, see [1]) is a
single pull request fixing a one-char typo.

So the jury may still be out on that one.

Dirk

[1] As already shown in the email thread:
        https://github.com/eddelbuettel/ctv-hpc
        https://github.com/eddelbuettel/ctv-finance


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[Rd] Programming Tools CTV
Dirk Eddelbuettel