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R Packages

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morals

“Software and cathedrals are much the same; first we build them, then we pray.”

—Anonymous

“As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed

repeatedly, in real applications.”

—David Parnas

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Packages are [a] fundamental units of reproducible R code. They include reusable R

functions, the documentation that describes how to use them, and sample data.

–R Packages, Hadley Wickham and Jenny Bryan

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