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it's clever but is it more readable?

these sorts of discussions, people who write blog posts about 'library' vs. 'require', kind of feel like 'R smell'.

wouldn't it be better for a language to just take a list of libraries for import, maybe with a readable syntax?

so... have we got to where Julia can re-use R packages yet?

I understand where you're coming from, but these two lines are exactly 'taking a list of libraries for import'.

packages is a character vector of package names, lapply is by definition 'list apply'. We're taking a list of packages and applying the library function on them.

This seems complicated if you're not used to it but R is a functional language. Approaching R from this perspective makes it a powerful, flexible.

Check out rcall.jl

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