CRAN has extremely strong requirements around testing, compatibility, documentation, all aggressively enforced by the maintainers of the repository. The Julia

CRAN has extremely strong requirements around testing, compatibility, documentation, all aggressively enforced by the maintainers of the repository. The Julia package ecosystem is much more anarchic, like npm. You basically just have to have a public git repository with certain files in place, and a cursory review from the managers of the package metadata. There are tradeoffs. I'm honestly not sure which one is the right way. I really appreciate how much I can trust that a CRAN package works, but there's a reason so many R devs are using devtools to do an end-run around it.