We're spoiled by the stability of base/core R #rstats We have high expectations for stability, backward-compatibility, and reproducibility thanks to the example set by R Core /cc @_R_Foundation @MMaechler @pdalgd @lawremi @tslumley @martyn_plummer @duncantl @LukeTierney4 ...
Carl Boettiger (@cboettig@ecoevo.social) @cboettig
20 Oct 2022
In #rstats @hadleywickham drops a fn deprecated for 2 years and we melt down. meanwhile over in #python ...
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... please @ any other R Core members I missed. I added those I know off the top of my head.
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Some packages I know share this philosophy: - data.table @MattDowle @arun_sriniv - zoo @AchimZeileis (+ Gabor Grothendieck) - shiny @winston_chang (/ht @daattali) - @eddelbuettel's packages (e.g. Rcpp) - my packages
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Replying to @joshua_ulrich @MattDowle @arun_sriniv @AchimZeileis @winston_chang @daattali
It actually extends far beyond (some) #RStats package to most (if not all) well-behaved components of the entire Unix toolchain and POSIX spec. Which is why outcries like this recent one are both rare, and justified:
Chris Siebenmann @thatcks
12 Oct 2022
I see that a bunch of system administrators (or distribution packagers) are going to set GNU Grep 3.8 on fire with the power of their minds. Spoiler: new warnings are an API change.

Oct 21, 2022 路 3:27 PM UTC

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Replying to @eddelbuettel @joshua_ulrich @MattDowle @arun_sriniv @AchimZeileis @winston_chang
$ cd ..//.. WARN: The use of consecutive path separators is deprecated. Please change any script that uses the `cd` command by end of year.