Dear Robert,
R supports package repositories out of the box. A repository is just a way
of organizing files. The most popular repositories are CRAN and
Bioconductor. There is even a package that allows you to set up your own
repository on Github (the drat package).
It depends on the repository
Hi, people other than the R developers can create packages which use R
to do interesting things. I gather such packages are mostly
distributed via CRAN, is that right? I am curious to know about the
process for approving such packages.
How much effort goes into reviewing and vetting packages? Is
