[Rd] Package development process?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Spencer Graves
<spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com> wrote:
> Hello, All:
>
>
>      What thoughts might you have on "The R Software Package Development
> Process"?
>
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>      I'm looking for ideas, materials, references, and / or collaborators
> for an article on this topic to be submitted to the Communications of the
> ACM.  My limited experience with other languages such as Matlab and Python
> suggests that R may be fairly unique with CRAN and this accompanying package

Perl has CPAN and TeX has CTAN.  Ruby has RubyGems.