The evolution of the R software ecosystem

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 243-252

  German, Daniel M ^a   Adams, Bram ^b   Hassan, Ahmed E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evolution; R; Software ecosystems

Indexed keywords

END USER PROGRAMMING; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION CHARACTERISTICS; HIGH QUALITY; OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPERS; R; SOFTWARE ECOSYSTEMS; STATISTICAL COMPUTING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; INDUSTRY; OPEN SYSTEMS; REENGINEERING;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 84877268644     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2013.33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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