Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) was created by Kurt Hornik and Friedrich Leisch in 1997 and is currently maintained by Hornik and a team of volunteers.

https://cran.r-project.org/

CRAN is a network of ftp and web servers around the world that store identical, up-to-date, versions of code and documentation for R.

Archive; Documentation; R packages

Science; Technology

R Foundation, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

Code Ocean, New York (United States); Ef-prime, Inc. (Japan); University of Iowa, Iowa City (United States)

No

The master site is located at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and is mirrored on servers around the world.The growth of CRAN has exposed limitations of its dependency management infrastructure, particularly the fact that it assumes that dependencies always refer to the latest version of a package, meaning that new releases of CRAN packages must always be backwards compatible, and that CRAN packages cannot have dependencies that are not on CRAN. It has also led to concerns about declining quality of packages.