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From: jor|@mey@ @end|ng |rom gm@||@com (Joris Meys)
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 16:27:49 +0200
Subject: [Rd] New matrix function
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On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 3:55 PM Morgan Morgan <morgan.emailbox at 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

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