Steph Locke

What things do you think should be covered in a package review?

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We can do a lot of different things in a package review. What do you think should be included?

Anyone know if there's a package that trumps Mango's and is ideally on CRAN? https://github.com/mangothecat/functionmap

Add unit tests

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This package could do with tests - some thought will need to go into managing the account used for testing http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/12/securely-storing-your-secrets-in-r-code.html http://matthewlincoln.net/2016/05/13/r-packages-secret-keys-and-appveyor.html https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/googlesheets/vignettes/managing-auth-tokens.html

We need to demonstrate how one can create a hash for a file, store it, and then use if for comparison purposes in our sourcesafe function. https://github.com/ropenscilabs/r-security-practices/blob/master/handouts/02-users.Rmd#unsafe-sourcing

Make this support multiple languages, might need new theme eg https://themes.gohugo.io/hugo-theme-learn/