[Bioc-devel] Why bioconductor?

[Levi Waldron]

A related comment came up in a conversation I recently had with a potential
Bioconductor developer I met recently, who commented that even as an
experienced Python or CRAN developer, it is difficult to orient oneself to
the Bioconductor "style" and infrastructure for developers. He gave the
example of wishing there were something like
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ available. One specific that we
discussed was how to orient oneself to the hierarchy of Bioconductor S4
classes and how to choose classes to develop from, something that
http://bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/commonMethodsAndClasses/ falls
short on because it only gives the biological contexts of some important
classes.


On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:52 AM Ludwig Geistlinger <
Ludwig.Geistlinger using sph.cuny.edu> wrote:

> While this might be obvious to most of us, it seems to be less clear to
> others.
>
> In particular, those who worked out their first package and wonder what's
> the difference between having a package available on Github, CRAN, or
> Bioconductor.
>
>
> I wonder whether it would be helpful for the Bioc webpage to pick up on
> the benefits of submitting to CRAN by Hadley
>
>
> http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/release.html
>
>
> and several considerations with respect to Bioconductor
>
>
> https://bioinformatics.stackexchange.com/questions/639/why-bioconductor
>
>
> (Maybe FAQ?)
>
>
>  Just a thought.
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