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Eduardo Ariño de la Rubia - Packrat - LA R Meet...

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

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

Data Science LA

November 11, 2014
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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. it has options, i don’t mess with them but… you

    probably want to change the vcs.ignore