Ravi Varadhan <rvaradhan <at> jhmi.edu> writes:
>
> "The decision about whether it belongs in a package or in base R is
> about who should maintain the code."
>
> Ok. I understand it now.
>
> Thanks,
> Ravi.
>
A point that may not have been made (sorry if it was and I missed it):
A better question might be how packages get added to the *recommended*
package list (rather than how code gets added to "base R"). Of the
16 recommended packages, 2 are maintained by R-core itself, 12 by various
R-core members acting as individuals (I assume), and 2 by non-R-core
people. It seems that if a contributed package sticks around long enough
and proves itself sufficiently useful and of sufficiently high quality
(and well enough maintained), that it could then be suggested as
a recommended package.
i1 <- installed.packages()
i2 <- i1[!is.na(i1[,"Priority"]),]
ff <- function(x) table(sapply(x[,"Package"],maintainer))
ff(i2[i2[,"Priority"]=="base",])
R Core Team <r-c...@r-project.org>
12
ff(i2[i2[,"Priority"]=="recommended",])
Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>
7
Deepayan Sarkar <deepayan.sar...@r-project.org>
2
Doug and Martin <matrix-auth...@r-project.org>
1
Luke Tierney <l...@stat.uiowa.edu>
1
Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch>
1
R-core <r-c...@r-project.org>
1
R-core <r-c...@r-project.org>
1
Simon Wood <simon.w...@r-project.org>
1
Terry Therneau <therneau.te...@mayo.edu>
1
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