In this event we will hear from two R package authors about their experiences of creating and maintaining R packages on CRAN. Neil Spencer (University of Hertfordshire) will be talking about the creation of the ANSM5 package, written to accompany the 5th edition of the book “Applied Nonparametric Statistical Methods”, outlining some of the issues, pitfalls and solutions he came across, and demonstrating that one does not have to be a computer scientist to have a package published on CRAN. Damianos Michaelides (The Cyprus Institute of Neurology & Genetics and University of Cyprus) will then discuss his experiences of carrying out maintenance of the packages fdesigns and hassediagrams on CRAN, looking at the practical challenges of keeping packages up to date with CRAN policies and evolving dependencies.
Neil Spencer is Professor of Applied Statistics at the University of Hertfordshire. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a Chartered Statistician, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. For over thirty years, he has combined traditional academic research with contract research and consultancy work in statistics. He is the (co-)author of three books, including the fifth edition of
Applied Nonparametric Statistical Methods (with Nigel Smeeton and Peter Sprent), for which he developed the R package ANSM5. The insights gained from this experience form the basis of his talk at this event.
Damianos Michaelides is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Biostatistics Unit of The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics and part-time lecturer at the University of Cyprus. His research focuses on breast cancer risk assessment and the classification of rare variants of uncertain significance. Damianos previously worked as a Pre-Clinical Principal Statistician at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in London and he holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Southampton, with research focus in the Design of Experiments for dynamically varying variables
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