The Comprehensive R Archive Network

The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) is a network of sites acting as the primary web service distributing R sources and binaries, extension packages, and documentation. We discuss this functionality in more detail, with particular emphasis on the CRAN package repository, and its underlying design and operation principles. WIREs Comput Stat 2012 doi: 10.1002/wics.1212 For further resources related to this article, please visit the WIREs website