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Every modeler is supposed to be a great Python programmer
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Dec 2022

As I alluded to, renv exists, but it requires a lot of development work before it is a comparably robust option for the ecosystem. Basic things like a command-line interface [0], working with non-CRAN repos [1], using an existing DESCRIPTION file [2], etc. There are many use cases where renv does not work in a corporate environment (ie not open-source all public code scenarios). Some of those issues have been open for years.
I do not believe the situation is unsolvable, but there is significant work to be done. Renv provides value today, and I will encourage everyone to use it. However, it has significant blind spots which continue to make R deployments challenging.
[0] https://github.com/rstudio/renv/issues/1055
What is your favorite R package and why?
5 projects | /r/AskStatistics | 27 Mar 2021

renv for managing packages in projects.
New package ‘box’: Write reusable, composable and modular R code
4 projects | /r/rstats | 17 Feb 2021

Oh wow! That is crazy!
Groundhog: Addressing the Threat That R Poses to Reproducible Research
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jan 2021

I’ve yet to use it personally, but renv [1] seems to try to solve the reproducible builds problem in a way more similar to other modern package managers (e.g. by generating a lockfile).
This approach enables stricter validations against tampering with the package repositories as a hash of the package can be stored in the lockfile, however it is obviously a bit more complex to use than the groundhog approach.
[1]: https://github.com/rstudio/renv
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