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Re:Rsuite – R development and data science platform by syrahshiraz on Saturday December 14, 2019 @06:36PM (#21793175)
Disclosure: I work at RStudio

Took a quick look at the docs. If you're looking for dependency management there's renv[1] and you can (obviously) use git for source control. If you actually have enterprise use cases for library curation or air-gapped deployments, you can check out RStudio Package Manager[2]. Among other things, it provides precompiled binaries for packages, which Rsuite doesn't improve on, per docs[3]:

> Now you are ready to install dependencies. Beware that it will take a lot of time because of compilation. You install dependencies with the following command:

[1]: https://github.com/rstudio/renv

[2]: https://rstudio.com/products/package-manager/

[3]: https://rsuite.io/RSuite_Tutorial.php?article=rsuite_binary_...

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Re:Rsuite – R development and data science platform by wjak on Saturday December 14, 2019 @07:29PM (#21793468)
Rsuite has supported binary pkgs about a year before rstudio. You have not read docs to the end. Rsuite has been used for enterprise. It works great. And it is open-source. Moreover it brings proper definition of R project which rstudio still is missing.
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