BigDataFr recommends: How I decide when to trust an R package

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One thing that I’ve given a lot of thought to recently is the process that I use to decide whether I trust an R package or not. Kasper Hansen took a break from trolling me on Twitter to talk about how he trusts packages on Github less than packages that are on CRAN and particularly Bioconductor. A couple of points he makes that I think are very relevant.[..]

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