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I am revising an NIH grant that involves a major programming effort. In the original grant, I did not include much detail on how the program would be developed. Here are some things I will mention in the revised grant that we should include.

Version control software (subversion or maybe git)

Bug tracking

Documentation standards

Modular programming style

Unit testing

Literate programming

Rougier, Jonathan (2005) Literate programming for creating and maintaining packages. R News , 5(1):35-39, May 2005.

Leisch, Friedrich (2008): Creating R Packages: A Tutorial. In: Brito, Paula (ed.) , Compstat 2008 - Proceedings in Computational Statistics. Physica Verlag: Heidelberg, Germany. http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6175/

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