> Oh man, can I sign onto this rant. Please, be my guest hahaha. I think my issue with so many of these tools is that they’re fundamentally meant to be used i

> Oh man, can I sign onto this rant. Please, be my guest hahaha. I think my issue with so many of these tools is that they’re fundamentally meant to be used interactively. R (renv/etc) doesn’t have a package manager separate from the runtime, so you can’t just “yarn/pip/cargo/etc install” and have your dependencies setup prior to your script running, you have to invoke manual R commands and hope everything goes off ok, it doesn’t spontaneously pick a different directory to install your stuff in, or have a tantrum about permissions because it wants to install in some root dir.