[vhhn]

There are two camps in the R world - tidyverse and base-R (tiniverse).

Its not a coincidence that the author gives an example from the tidyverse ecosystem. Authors and users of tidyverse value other things like consistency and new features over API stability and backward compatility. The base-R ecosystem is actually very stable and so the original package manager is very simple.

With R spreading out from the academic environment and with many new authors breaking their packages' APIs we observe new attempts to solve the issues with dependencies (such as renv or https://rsuite.io)