Re:RStudio is now Posit, our mission continues
by bscphil on Friday November 04, 2022 @07:56PM
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> As for package management in R you can use either Renv or conda. Been coding R for a decade and have always pinned down packages and you could do so well before tooling made it simple as pie.
Right, I get that - but OP was claiming that package management in Python was a "shitshow". It's interesting that a lot of people are responding to my comment by saying "actually you can make package management in R just as easy as in Python, it's just that R programmers tend not to be professionals." Doesn't that just confirm my belief that Python's package management story is actually pretty good?
Here's the thing, programming is a skill. If people think it's the "not important thing" only the result (seen this often in some of my previous positions), you're going to get disasters yeah.
As for package management in R you can use either Renv or conda. Been coding R for a decade and have always pinned down packages and you could do so well before tooling made it simple as pie.