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Author(s) -
Hornik Kurt
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
wiley interdisciplinary reviews: computational statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.693
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1939-0068
pISSN - 1939-5108
DOI - 10.1002/wics.1212
Subject(s) - documentation , extension (predicate logic) , computer science , r package , service (business) , world wide web , data science , database , programming language , business , marketing
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 This article is categorized under: Applications of Computational Statistics > Organizations and Publications