Gilles Colling
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Gilles Colling
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Apr 03, 2026
Transitive dependency effects are underappreciated. One package updating a shared dep can ripple through dozens of reverse dependencies without anyone noticing until CRAN check day. Good write-up on making the downstream effects visible.
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Mar 24, 2026
I fell in love with the R ecosystem during my PhD. Thousands of open source packages, all free. I never had to depend on Microsoft or a university license to do science. Now I write ecology packages and put them on CRAN. Independent tools for independent science. #rstats
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