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Wednesday, July 10 • 13:30 - 15:00
A reproducible analysis of CRAN Task Views to understand the state of an R package ecosystem - Hugo Gruson, data.org

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The research community is increasingly aware of the need to apply software engineering best practices to scientific software. This however doesn't mean that we should discard the huge ecosystem of existing tools with large, well-established, user bases. Instead, efforts should be dedicated to integrate best practices in existing tools where possible. But this can only be done if we have a clear idea of the current state of the ecosystem, with its gaps and needs.
In this presentation, I will describe the analysis we have conducted on the ecosystem of R packages for Epidemiology, as represented by the CRAN Task View in Epidemiology. It allows us to draw a picture of where efforts to support this ecosystem should focus. This also informs future training needs for this research community, and maps a path for external contributions to packages that wish it.
Importantly, this analysis is made reproducible and applicable to any CRAN Task View out of the box, which allows research and software communities from other fields to conduct the same assessment on their own domain.
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Hugo Gruson

Lead Software Architect, data.org
Hugo is a professional developer and happy R community member. He has developed and maintains packages across many fields, such as evolutionary biology, epidemiology, statistics or reproducible science and contributes to the community via blog posts or pull requests to existing packages.Over... Read More →

Wednesday July 10, 2024 13:30 - 15:00 CEST
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  Research software engineering, Poster Session
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