https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/lubridate/ Recent content in Lubridate on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Sat, 27 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/11/27/lubridate-fns/ Sat, 27 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/11/27/lubridate-fns/ tl;dr I used {itdepends} to see how CRAN packages depend on {lubridate}, which was not removed from CRAN recently. Lubrigate A test failure in {lubridate} led to hundreds of R developers being emailed about its potential expulsion from CRAN, which also threatened the hundreds of packages that depend on it. I see the benefit of minimising dependencies. I also understand the drawbacks of reinventing the wheel. Maybe {lubridate} is a good dependency: a simple API, part of the popular {tidyverse}, and it handles stuff you can’t be bothered with (like what’s 29 February plus one year?