Eduardo Ariño de la Rubia - Packrat - LA R Meetup - Nov 2014

What is Packrat for R, and why should you care?

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1. Packrat Making your life more predictable with dependency management @earino
4. Dependency Management
5. CRAN is awesome! • For simple use cases • When you’re not working on corporate / enterprise deployments • When you aren’t managing changes to packages separately from changes to models
6. Reproducibility • There is a crisis in reproducibility in research • A 2011 study found that 65% of medical studies were inconsistent when re-tested, and only 6% were completely reproducible. • A new survey of 20-year-old studies shows that poor archives and inaccessible authors make 90 percent of raw data impossible to find
8. CRAN package dependencies
9. This is my whole dumb talk
10. OH HEY THAT IS NEATO
11. Stores all the versions of the packages installed!
12. it has options, i don’t mess with them but… you probably want to change the vcs.ignore
13. Handling Cleanup http://rstudio.github.io/packrat/walkthrough.html http://rstudio.github.io/packrat/rstudio.html http://rstudio.github.io/packrat/commands.html
14. CONNECT WITH US ON DATASCIENCE.LA