Announcing Posit Package Manager

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Posit Package Manager is an on‑premise commercial product that creates a central repository for CRAN, Git-hosted internal packages, and curated subsets, recording transactional repository IDs so teams can time travel to a repository snapshot and reinstall exact package sets. It turns Git commits into installable R packages, exposes package-level and repo-level history, shows download and license metrics, plans Linux binaries later in 2019, and notes real projects with 112 package dependencies; free licenses are available for teaching.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:26Outline
3. 1:15Package Challenges
4. 2:16Package Failures
5. 3:32The Problem
6. 5:37The Role
7. 6:27The Analogy
8. 9:12Demo
9. 16:15Summary
10. 16:41Whats Next
11. 17:25Challenge
12. 18:58Questions

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