Are There Too Many R Packages?

The number of R extension packages available from the CRAN repository has tremendously grown over the past 10 years. We look at this phenomenon in more detail, and discuss some of its consequences. In particular, we argue that the statistical computing community needs a more common understanding of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kurt Hornik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Austrian Statistical Society 2016-02-01
Series:Austrian Journal of Statistics
Online Access:http://www.ajs.or.at/index.php/ajs/article/view/188