Software Engineering and R Programming: A Call for Research

Abstract:

Although R programming has been a part of research since its origins in the 1990s, few studies address scientific software development from a Software Engineering (SE) perspective. The past few years have seen unparalleled growth in the R community, and it is time to push the boundaries of SE research and R programming forwards. This paper discusses relevant studies that close this gap Additionally, it proposes a set of good practices derived from those findings aiming to act as a call-to-arms for both the R and RSE (Research SE) community to explore specific, interdisciplinary paths of research.

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Author

Affiliation

Melina Vidoni

 

Published

Dec. 13, 2021

Received

May 24, 2021

DOI

10.32614/RJ-2021-108

Volume

Pages

13/2

6 - 14

CRAN packages used

genthat, roxygen2, pkgdown, covr, testthat, tidyverse

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    Vidoni, "The R Journal: Software Engineering and R Programming: A Call for Research", The R Journal, 2021

    BibTeX citation

    @article{RJ-2021-108,
      author = {Vidoni, Melina},
      title = {The R Journal: Software Engineering and R Programming: A Call for Research},
      journal = {The R Journal},
      year = {2021},
      note = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2021-108},
      doi = {10.32614/RJ-2021-108},
      volume = {13},
      issue = {2},
      issn = {2073-4859},
      pages = {6-14}
    }