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
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