Developing dendroNetwork as a package was not a goal from the beginning, but looking back, I think that it should have been. I wish someone had suggested making a package to me much earlier. Why? Because of many things, but mostly: reproducibility and transparency. This enables others to also use the method and software. In addition, I really enjoyed the open peer-review process after submitting to rOpenSci, because the reviewers showed me various improvements and how people from outside my discipline viewed the software and …