On: One Year with R

[disgruntledphd2]

I dunno man, python has always seemed a little bit worse on this stuff to me. At least with R if you had a consistent version, everything off CRAN worked together.

I think R 3.0 introduced namespaces which fixed a lot of the really crazy stuff.

Also, I was writing Sweave in 2010 for my thesis, and I definitely wasn't alone.

[jghn → disgruntledphd2]

Namespaces showed up around 2004, so somewhere around 2.0.0. I don't think they were mandatory until much later.