{slushy}: A Bridge to the Future
summary
slushy is an R package that lets teams mimic locked "frozen" environments while staying on open R by combining renv with Posit Package Manager snapshots so a project can “time travel” to a dated CRAN state. it provides commands like slushy_update and a preview step to show exactly which packages change, a slushy_add to approve new packages, a config file and single-maintainer workflow, and an open GitHub repo; GSK reports it speeds R adoption and keeps teams working in parallel.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:48Frozen Environments
- 4:26Open R World
- 7:24Help
- 14:50Peak Ahead
- 15:40Simplify
- 17:26Config
- 19:03Conclusion
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