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The R ecosystem and the case for extreme empathy in software maintenance
If one of your package’s unit tests fails on Windows Server 2022 plus a development version of R, you’ll receive an email from the CRAN team explaining why it can’t be published. This lets a user just sit down at their computer, update all the packages in their environment to the latest versions, and resume their work, much like you would perform a ‘git pull’ in a single repo. A big benefit was that my team could complete the API changes fairly quickly, while continuing to make progress on exciting new features like vector search.
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