maintaineR: A Web-Based Dashboard for Maintainers of CRAN Packages

摘要

The R development community maintains thousands of packages through its Comprehensive R Archive Network CRAN. The growth and evolution of this archive makes it more and more difficult to maintain packages and their interdependencies, and the existing tools that aim to help developers in this process no longer suffice. We propose maintaine R, a web-based dashboard that allows CRAN package developers to understand and deal with the implications and problems raised by package updates. The dashboard complements existing analysis tools by providing additional support such as the visualisation of package dependencies and reverse dependencies, package conflicts, cross-package function clones, and so on.