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I am a C programmer. I have always been a C programmer. I have been thrown neck deep into someone else’s npm project with directions written for npm programmers and I am drowning under angry command line output like “figgy pudding is deprecated”

Janne Moren

@arclight @0xabad1dea
Do note that R doesn't really version its dependencies; whatever code your software runs today isn't necessarily what it runs tomorrow.

And more importantly, any given version of R doesn't keep its packages. Installing the exact same version of R in a year will likely be largely broken.

@rstub @jannem We retain source archives of all dependencies; the code is built and operated in an environment with limited/no internet connectivity. We're looking at {renv} but this really needs to be pushed upstream to the code's vendor. It would be much simpler if this application was implemented as a statically-compiled binary but that is unlikely given the code's origin. Interpreted research-oriented code does not deal well with strict configuration management; it's a generic problem with popular dynamic/interpreted languages.