Talk:Package development process

R focus

Personally, I'm a fan of some of the R processes. But this is an excessive fixation on one language for a general article. — MaxEnt 21:43, 19 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please fix it. I wrote what I know, hoping others would improve it.

Decades ago, I wrote a lot of Fortran. I also wrote a little Cobol and assembly language for different machines, Lisp, etc. I've written macros for DOS and spreadsheets. I've written Python and Matlab. Many languages have systems for sharing code in "packages". R with the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) is the only one I know that requires contributors to provide documentation with examples that can serve as unit tests -- and which are routinely tested on the most common platforms. I believe this discipline in what CRAN accepts has contributed to the success of R.

If you know others with those features, please provided documentation -- or ask someone else who knows such to provide such documentation.

Thanks, DavidMCEddy (talk) 22:07, 19 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]