I enjoyed working w/ R and R studio to have the code and published pdf always under version control and found that the reproducible research community added rea

I enjoyed working w/ R and R studio to have the code and published pdf always under version control and found that the reproducible research community added readers and feedback and interest from outside my narrowly-defined subject area. I didn't enjoy that frequent package updates would break everything. What kind of coding eco-system does your work exist in?