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Upgrading will also break things. And code which depends on defaults will be broken either in new releases or in older releases.
by kgwgk 7y ago
Upgrading will also break things. And code which depends on defaults will be broken either in new releases or in older releases.
- s1t5 7y agoUpgrading makes the changes explicit, tinkering with your environment variables doesn't.
- kgwgk 7y agoUpgrading is not different than changing environment variables as far as breaking existing code is concerned. You can always run R --no-init-file to be sure that you have the default settings. Now you have to know what default settings the code that you want to run expects.
- thom 7y agoYes, I mean, we could list things all day that make R a horrible environment for reproducible analysis or production deployment, but it is what it is.
- kgwgk 7y agoYou’re right. My defensive reply was unwarranted.