[hervature]

> hot-off-the-PhD-thesis cutting-edge-just-published-in-J.-Stat.-Soft-chunk of statistical analysis

I think you mean "poorly-documented-cobbled-together-under-deadlines-never-to-be-maintained by someone who has no idea of software principles". Very few labs have a dedicated software engineer to actually turn this software into a usable/hackable tool let alone maintain it.

[ekianjo]

thats an unnecessary negative stance. not every algorithm needs to be scalable and over optimized to be useful in most cases. and if something becomes really useful in R it ends up being reimplemented in more effe five ways down the road.

[milliams]

No, but it does need to be tested and reliable.