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Your take seems a bit 'hot' too? How else would you install the cran packages without using install.packages? Unless if you want them to recursively install it
by resonantjacket5 6y ago
Your take seems a bit 'hot' too?
How else would you install the cran packages without using install.packages? Unless if you want them to recursively install it using groundhog but that seems unnecessary.
As long as you have the timestamp it should work, though I assume there will be some edge case.
What you're saying is like don't use pip because you don't install it using pip? Or don't use package-lock.json because you can't install npm through npm?
- cat199 6y ago> Your take seems a bit 'hot' too? OP is not claiming that Groundhog itself is a threat to the R language ecosystem itself, whereas the author is claiming that the R language is itself a threat to Science itself...
- scottmcdot 6y agoSomeone correct me if I'm wrong, but can't you copy and paste the package folder into your libpath directory and R can load it that way with actually running install.packages()?
- vharuck 6y agoUsually, yes. However, it is possible for a package to have code that only runs when it is installed. If you just copy-paste, it won't be run.
- cauthon 6y agoNo, I’m saying don’t call CRAN a “threat to reproducible science” and then make your solution a CRAN package