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Re:Why I use R by halbritt on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @01:00AM (#21977348)
I didn't suggest it was hard. I found CRAN repos to be insecure and unreliable.
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Re:Why I use R by kwertzzz on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @03:42AM (#21978170)
I am not a R user (using primarily julia and python), but can you expand on the insecure aspect of CRAN. Do you refer to (potentially) missing package signing (similar to [1])? I am not aware that python or julia support this either. Or is the software download over ftp/http instead of https?

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt

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