Taking Control of the System Environment

“In other cases, your R or Python library might basically just be a wrapper for system libraries. For example, many popular packages for geospatial analysis are just thin language wrappers that call out to the system libraries. In this case, it might be important to be able to maintain a particular version of the underlying system library to ensure that your code runs at all in the future.”

As we have a chapter dedicated to Docker (which I haven’t read) I won’t dive into this here - I expect we’ll have run out of time too.