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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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