Given a general mandate for at least some level of backwards compatibility among package maintainers, I've seen very few bugs introduced by updating. This post describes this idea in the context of software development: I like to spend my troubleshooting time on things that are likely to benefit the most people, going forward in time.įinally, I think there's also an element of "if it hurts, do it more often". Much more so than figuring out how to get an old version of X to work smoothly with an old version of Y. Second, even when we run into trouble (which happens with new stuff!), discovering and fixing bugs in current packages seems like a very worthwhile activity.
I also show and use features in packages/functions that have come about more recently. So I wouldn't say that everything needs to be bleeding edge, but some reasonable definition of current.įirst, we don't want to bump into bugs that have already been fixed. I see so many time capsules! As in, systems that appear to be frozen circa 2016 or thereabouts. My motivation for recommending that people update R, RStudio, and their packages at the start of every course I teach is.
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