Because there are a lot less packages with binary dependencies, I've overall had less problems than work R. Most packages are pure Julia, and there you shouldn'

Because there are a lot less packages with binary dependencies, I've overall had less problems than work R. Most packages are pure Julia, and there you shouldn't face issues. With the new binary builder, binaries should be another note, so long as you download an official Julia binary, or built Julia from source in the same way those binaries are made (eg, build OpenBLAS with gfortran 7).