TY - JOUR AU - Hornik, Kurt PY - 2016/02/24 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Are There Too Many R Packages? JF - Austrian Journal of Statistics JA - AJS VL - 41 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.17713/ajs.v41i1.188 UR - https://ajs.or.at/index.php/ajs/article/view/vol41%2C%20no1%20-%205 SP - 59–66 AB - The number of R extension packages available from the CRAN repository has tremendously grown over the past 10 years. We look at this phenomenon in more detail, and discuss some of its consequences. In particular, we argue that the statistical computing community needs a more common understanding of software quality, and better domain-specific semantic resources. ER -