@article {1241,
	title = {Collaborative Software Development Using R-Forge},
	journal = {The R Journal},
	volume = {1},
	number = {1},
	year = {2009},
	month = {05/2009},
	pages = {9-14},
	abstract = {Open source software (OSS) is typically created in a decentralized self-organizing process by a community of developers having the same or similar interests (see the famous essay by Raymond, 1999). A key factor for the success of OSS over the last two decades is the Internet: Developers who rarely meet face-to-face can employ new means of communication, both for rapidly writing and deploying software (in the spirit of Linus Torvald{\textquoteright}s {\textquotedblleft}release early, release often paradigm{\textquotedblright}). Therefore, many tools emerged that assist a collaborative software development process, including in particular tools for source code management (SCM) and version control.
In the R world, SCM is not a new idea; in fact, the R Development Core Team has always been using SCM tools for the R sources, first by means of Concurrent Versions System (CVS, see Cederqvist et al., 2006), and then via Subversion (SVN, see Pilato et al., 2004). A central repository is hosted by ETH Zürich mainly for managing the development of the base R system. Mailing lists like R-help, R-devel and many others are currently the main communication channels in the R community.
First, we present the core features that R- Forge offers to the R community. Second, we give a hands-on tutorial on how users and developers can get started with R-Forge. In particular, we illustrate how people can register, set up new projects, use R- Forge{\textquoteright}s SCM facilities, provide their packages on R-Forge, host a project-specific website, and how package maintainers submit a package to the Compre- hensive R Archive Network (CRAN, http://CRAN. R-project.org/). Finally, we summarize recent developments and give a brief outlook to future work.},
	keywords = {forge, R, scm, source code repositories, statistics},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/rjournal.pdf},
	author = {Stefan Theu{\ss}l and Achim Zeileis}
}
