News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on One Year with R. Parent comment

Re:One Year with R by disgruntledphd2 on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @02:42PM (#30769820)
I dunno man, python has always seemed a little bit worse on this stuff to me. At least with R if you had a consistent version, everything off CRAN worked together.

I think R 3.0 introduced namespaces which fixed a lot of the really crazy stuff.

Also, I was writing Sweave in 2010 for my thesis, and I definitely wasn't alone.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:One Year with R by jghn on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @07:16PM (#30772850)
Namespaces showed up around 2004, so somewhere around 2.0.0. I don't think they were mandatory until much later.
[ Parent | on HN ]