On 16/08/2008 1:54 PM, Carl Witthoft wrote:
I'd like a little advice as to when it's appropriate to create an
R-package and submit it, as opposed to just providing the source to some
simple code.
In this case, I've written a function that draws a line plot (with
options for points, etc) where the color of the line changes at
specified values of the y-data (e.g., it's one color below -10, another
color between -10 and -5, etc). It's pretty clean, and has a few
error-checks, self-correctors, etc., so I would be happy to provide it
to the community as a whole.
So, is this worthy of a package, or should I just post the function code
(well commented)?
Or is this feature available deep inside some graphing package I haven't
found yet? :-(
I'd say for a single function it's better to find an existing package
which would be a natural home for it.
Think about which package comes closest to doing what you want, and ask
the author of that package if they're interested in your contribution.
(This may need some iteration if the first author you contact says no.)
The disadvantage of putting this in its own package is the same as just
posting code somewhere -- it won't be found.
One other thing you should do regardless of how you end up distributing
it is putting a sample plot into the R Graph Gallery at
http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/.
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