From hadley at rice.edu  Thu Jun 17 15:23:23 2010
From: hadley at rice.edu (Hadley Wickham)
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:23:23 -0700
Subject: [Rd] Package development process?
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimzwzW_k58juurZ11GszYxsnV_fW32prr9K4oHa@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4C182C9E.2080604@structuremonitoring.com>
	<AANLkTinvljHoZC-XA5UgJkMoSmft9z9SjsUPwt_9W2F6@mail.gmail.com> 
	<4C18E297.7020805@structuremonitoring.com>
	<AANLkTimtGcfzKshfvQsRBNGAqfxfiZkrabf0loOVtc1V@mail.gmail.com> 
	<4C19E971.7000807@pburns.seanet.com>
	<AANLkTimzwzW_k58juurZ11GszYxsnV_fW32prr9K4oHa@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTinkQrmlJrKAsmX9UFmSFPZtOZHi7V_eFKMautge@mail.gmail.com>

> The creation of a research compendium can be viewed as
> a form of unit testing, and the fact that R has powerful tools
> that support this process (Sweave) could be viewed as one of
> its outstanding features (relating these comments back to
> the topic of this thread).

If anything, a research compendium would be an integration test, not a
compendium.  And many programming languages have something similar to
sweave.

Hadley

-- 
Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair
Department of Statistics / Rice University
http://had.co.nz/



[Rd] Package development process?
Hadley Wickham