On the Development and Distribution of R Packages

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Conference object 07 Sep 2015Publisher:ACMJournal:Proceedings of the 2015 European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops

Authors: Alexandre Decan; Tom Mens; Maëlick Claes; Philippe Grosjean;

doi: 10.1145/2797433.2797476

On the Development and Distribution of R Packages

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This paper explores the ecosystem of software packages for R, one of the most popular environments for statistical computing today. We empirically study how R packages are developed and distributed on different repositories: CRAN, BioConductor, R-Forge and GitHub. We also explore the role and size of each repository, the inter-repository dependencies, and how these repositories grow over time. With this analysis, we provide a deeper insight into the extent and the evolution of the R package ecosystem.

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