TY  - CHAP
TI  - Collaborative Software Development using R-Forge
AB  - A key factor in open source software development is the rapid creation of solutions
within an open, collaborative environment. The open source model had its major breakthrough
with the increasing usage of the internet. Online communities successfully combined
not only their programming effort but also their knowledge, work and even their
social life.
The consequence was an increasing demand for centralized resources e.g., to manage
projects or source code. The most famous of such platforms|the world's largest open
source software development web site|is SourceForge.net.
For a decade, the R Development Core Team as well as many R package developeRs
have been using development tools like Subversion (SVN) or Concurrent Versions System
(CVS) for managing their source code. A central repository is hosted by ETH Zurich
mainly for managing the development of the base R system. Now, the R-project wants to
provide infrastructure for the entire R community.
R-Forge (http://R-Forge.R-project.org) is a set of tools based on the open source
software GForge|a fork of the open source version of SourceForge.net. It aims to provide a
platform for collaborative development of R packages, R related software or other projects
which are somehow related to R. It offers source code management facilities through SVN
and a wide variety of web-based services.
Furthermore, packages hosted on R-Forge are built daily for various operating systems,
i.e., Linux, MacOSX and Windows. These package builds are downloadable from the
project's website on R-Forge as well as installable directly in R via install.packages().
In our talk we show how package developeRs can get started with R-Forge. In particular
we show how people can register a project, use R-Forge's source code management facilities,
provide their packages with R-Forge, host a project specific website, and finally submit a
package to CRAN.
AF  - useR! - The R User Conference 2008
PP  - Dortmund
UR  - http://www.statistik.uni-dortmund.de/useR-2008/
PY  - 2008-01-01
AU  - Theußl, Stefan 
AU  - Zeileis, Achim 
AU  - Hornik, Kurt 
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