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I’ve had some brief run-ins with R, and it doesn’t surprise me that it doesn’t have a versioning story for packages, and that the patched-in system described he

by qrohlf 6y ago

I’ve had some brief run-ins with R, and it doesn’t surprise me that it doesn’t have a versioning story for packages, and that the patched-in system described here is based on dates rather than something like a SHA or version number... My favorite description of the language comes from http://arrgh.tim-smith.us/ http://arrgh.tim-smith.us/: > R is a shockingly dreadful language for an exceptionally useful data analysis environment. I feel like this is just one more data point to support that statement.

jcheng 6y ago
Packrat and its successor renv are the most popular package management systems for R, and they are based on versions/SHAs and lockfiles, like most other languages today. https://rstudio.github.io/packrat/ https://rstudio.github.io/packrat/ https://rstudio.github.io/renv/articles/renv.html https://rstudio.github.io/renv/articles/renv.html