Good Evening,

I'm a graduate student working on a project looking at issues with R
package submission and maintenance; specifically looking at the discovery
and elimination of functional/failure package errors (i.e. does the package
do what its supposed to do?  is the underlying math correct?).

Through prior knowledge and research I know there are protocols in place to
discover and eliminate technical/fault errors (such as what's outlined on
the R Project packages page) but haven't found anything on functional
errors.  As a result I had a few questions on the subject that I am hoping
someone had answers or know where answers could be found:

1)  How often are 'functional' package errors discovered and by what means
are they discovered?

2)  Is there any standardized process to handle packages with known
functional errors as there is with technical errors (archiving if not fixed
within the allotted time period).


Thank you for your time.

V/R,
Peter Muenzfeld

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