Package development process
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A software package development process is a system for developing software packages.
Discussion
In this context, a package is a collection of functions written for use in a single language such as Python or R, 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 with a "py" extension.
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. The source code for an R package is contained in a directory with a "DESCRIPTION" file and subdirectories "man" containing documentation files, "R", with files of code, and perhaps others. [1]
See also
- Package management system for combining software packages in different languages into an operating system.
- Software repository for collections of packages to share.
References
- ^ Writing R Extensions.
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