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xvilka on May 16, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Rv, a Package Manager for R

Maybe some code could be shared with the `uv`[1] to avoid re-implementing same things.

[1] https://github.com/astral-sh/uv

Keats on May 16, 2025 [–]

We actually do use a bit of their code for the linking phase, which they seem to have taken from Cargo. For the rest, Python and R are way too different in how they handle packages to allow sharing code.

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