On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Manlio Perillo
However, in this case, the package name should be changed. I'm not sure it is a good idea to release a package that implements only one function (but I may be wrong).
Personally, I think that there is little harm in releasing a package if it does something useful in a not-totally-broken way. Especially if you plan to extend it. I wrote the hmm package, which is basically only two functions, but that's all one needs to work with hidden Markov models, so that's all there is (I *am* busy expanding its functionality that's needed in a program I'm writing, but the basics are already there). I also uploaded the kmeans package, which exports a single function -- a friend of mine had the code, and it was useful to me, so it might be useful for others. And what does a clustering package need besides a cluster function? --Max