Validated |
Admins test and approve
a subset of CRAN |
Shared Baseline |
All or most of CRAN,
updated with R versions,
tied to a system library |
Wild West |
Open access,
not reproducible,
how we learn |
Snapshot |
Open access, user or system
records per-project dependencies |
Blocked |
Backdoor package access,
offline systems without a strategy |
Ticket System |
Admins involved,
no testing,
slow updates,
high risk of breakage |