• DocumentCode
    176272
  • Title

    maintaineR: A Web-Based Dashboard for Maintainers of CRAN Packages

  • Author

    Claes, Maelick ; Mens, Tom ; Grosjean, Philippe

  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    Sept. 29 2014-Oct. 3 2014
  • Firstpage
    597
  • Lastpage
    600
  • Abstract
    The R development community maintains thousands of packages through its Comprehensive R Archive Network CRAN. The growth and evolution of this archive makes it more and more difficult to maintain packages and their interdependencies, and the existing tools that aim to help developers in this process no longer suffice. We propose maintaine R, a web-based dashboard that allows CRAN package developers to understand and deal with the implications and problems raised by package updates. The dashboard complements existing analysis tools by providing additional support such as the visualisation of package dependencies and reverse dependencies, package conflicts, cross-package function clones, and so on.
  • Keywords
    Internet; software maintenance; CRAN package; Web-based dashboard; comprehensive R archive network; maintaineR; Cloning; Communities; Ecosystems; History; Maintenance engineering; Software; Visualization; CRAN archive network; clone detection; dependency analysis; package management; software distribution; software ecosystem; software maintenance; software repository mining; tool support;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), 2014 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Victoria, BC
  • ISSN
    1063-6773
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICSME.2014.104
  • Filename
    6976148