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This is actually a huge strength for the R community, who by and large are not programmers and just want stuff to work. The fact that the latest version of all
by hadley 11y ago
This is actually a huge strength for the R community, who by and large are not programmers and just want stuff to work. The fact that the latest version of all CRAN packages actually work together makes life much easier. And for experts there are tools like packrat and checkpoint that give you more control.
- th0ma5 11y agoI'm sorry, but this mindset is very harmful. If I need an old version of a package and I didn't save it off somewhere first, it simply cannot be found.
- mattdowle 11y agoHuh? There's an archive link on the CRAN page for every package; e.g. ggplot2 back to 2007: https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/ggplot2/ https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/ggplot2/