[scientism]

Totally agree. I find it frustrating trying to reproduce other people's work in R. How has this situation has been allowed to continue for so long? It's unacceptable, especially when used for science. It's impossible to replicate anything unless you are lucky enough you manage to find which package version introduces breaking changes and even then this is something you have to do repeatedly for every code break. Even with _renv_ it's a library you have to install within your R environment which is pointless. Where is a dependency solver like conda for R? - Not that it's perfect, but I've been happy with its drop-in replacement - mamba recently.