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Do these issues impact the R community to the same extent?

• thousandautumns 8y ago
  I can't speak to how the extent compares as I don't use Python nearly as much as R, but it is an issue. In some ways it may be worse, as there are a much wider variety of packages available for R from many different authors, so it isn't unheard of for packages to not be available for newer versions of R. That said, many of those tend to be niche, and I haven't really had old files need any kind of major revision.
• peatmoss 8y ago
  They’ve got some infrastructure such as “Packrat” that helps a little. You can at least be sure you have the correct version of each dependency stored away with your sources. You still need the right interpreter version. And of course if you have any exotic dependencies, you’d need to figure out what to do there. I’d say the major difference is one of disposition. The R community seems more on board with the premise that this is a problem worthy of solving. I suspect that that may be a function of the R community having a longer / deeper academic history than the Python community. EDIT: I should mention that the R community maintains some documentation about the issue as well. https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/ReproducibleResearch.html https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/ReproducibleResearch.ht...