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by gdevenyi 38 days ago
As a sysadmin R is the absolute worst for installing and supporting packages.
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greazy 37 days ago
Posit (previously RStudio) has a few tools to easy dependency problems such as rig.

Ive switched completely to conda handling my deps for R. Especially nicer on Linux systems as the packages are preinstalled.

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skotobaza 37 days ago
On Linux? Yeah, it could be a mess to compile some packages, so I opted to use r2u.
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