Package development process

A Software Package development process is a system for developing a software package. In this context, a package is a collection of functions written for use in a single language such as Python or R, bundled bundled with documentation. For many programming languages, there are software repositories where people share such packages.

A Python package combines documentation, code and initial set up and possibly examples that could be used as unit tests in a single file. By contrast, an R package has documentation with examples in files separate from the code, possibly bundled with other material such as sample data sets and introductory vignettes.

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