It does -- and to a much lesser extent shims exist for other languages as well. R also has imperfect packaging but I think it's handled well albeit with a level of complexity that also goes up a lot unexpectedly at times. For a truly great experience, call python packages within R in a custom conda environment in order to get data out of pandas in a particularly unholy way...
R has always shipped binary packages on Windows and Mac to avoid lots of the pain we see in Python.
Also, all packages must build with the latest version of R, or they are removed from CRAN. This makes the dep problems a lot less severe than we see with Python.
