> R, on the other hand, actually resolves dependencies in its package manager
And you have packages like renv which also help isolate specific versions of packages to make portable environments even more reliable.
And you have packages like renv which also help isolate specific versions of packages to make portable environments even more reliable.
I strongly prefer R for data science, but its dependency management story is poor, even compared to Python’s (which, in turn, is poor compared to Rust/Ruby/…).
Python will silently upgrade numpy as a transitive dependency and break everything, which is much worse. MRAN also has daily snapshots which is normally how i handle stuff that will never be updated.
I also specified building an R package which does handle dependencies versus the python equivalent which does not.
I'm not saying R is good, I'm just saying Python is way worse.
Compared to Rust? Sure. Compared to Ruby? Maybe in the way that a lockfile isn't automatically generated when using pip.
Hating on Python's dependency management is a meme at this point. You could do a lot worse than the current pip + venv, and upgrading to something like poetry or pipenv is pretty painless. I'm pretty sure 99% of problems occur because people don't pin stuff.