Subject: Re: [bug#28986] [PATCH] gnu: Add r-tgstat.

From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 09:56:06 +0200

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> * gnu/packages/statistics.scm (r-tgstat): New variable.
>
> [...]
>
>> +      (home-page "https://bitbucket.org/tanaylab/tgstat/")
>> +      (synopsis "Tanay's group statistical utilities")
>> +      (description
>> +       "The goal of tgstat is to provide fast and efficient statistical
>> +tools.")
>
> It would be nice to elaborate, but otherwise LGTM.

Yes, I agree.  Like many R packages this is just a bunch of unrelated
functions that are generic enough to get their own package.  Having so
many of these packages is a cultural problem in R…

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Ricardo

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