@_jcken not a blog, and I haven't really used box, but box ports the dependency management from python into R, while packages are the unit to share code. If box wouldn't be a package it would be harder to install and share.
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@_jcken not a blog, and I haven't really used box, but box ports the dependency management from python into R, while packages are the unit to share code. If box wouldn't be a package it would be harder to install and share.