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Should R Ecosystem Be a Choice for Longer-Term Projects?
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There are R packages for scientific papers developed around 2014. These packages are still working with its base code with C in the newest current R version and on CRAN. So I wonder for much longer-term projects, R is a better choice than Python?
The question asks whether the R ecosystem is suitable for longer-term projects, given its backward compatibility, but received no community answers.
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