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by halbritt 2352 days ago
It's this same reason that running anything that depends on R in production is a PITA.
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FranzFerdiNaN 2351 days ago
I run R in production and its absolutely fine and wasnt harder than pretty much any other thing in software development.
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halbritt 2351 days ago
I didn't suggest it was hard. I found CRAN repos to be insecure and unreliable.
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kwertzzz 2351 days ago
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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