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packrat and especially checkpoint to the rescue!

• timwilliate 11y ago
  Checkpoint only allows specifying that all packages as they existed on a particular data in CRAN be downloaded and utilized within a project. This is limiting in that an R developer may want to utilize very specific versions of packages that span multiple epochs. I would really like to see R develop functionality akin to Maven or SBT, such that an R developer can explicitly specify the exact versions of all dependencies, which will then be installed at the first run.
  • hadley 11y ago
    That's the goal of packrat. (But it's still a work in progress)