When I read R code and see people have very liberally used tons of packages like there is no tomorrow, I cringe. This is bad when they are doing it in research. Basically what they are doing is addicting their analysis and research to tons of packages. Like any other addition, when they don't get their fix, it's gonna hurt, and gonna hurt bad. Their research's reproducibility is close to non-existence as none of those packages will be around for ever. Pick dependencies carefully.
