I believe that, for R, releases are synonymous with distributions. The code is compiled on the user's machine (I once had a fortran error message while installi

I believe that, for R, releases are synonymous with distributions. The code is compiled on the user's machine (I once had a fortran error message while installing an R package). If reproducibility matters, you can also use Microsoft R Open to get your packages from a frozen snapshot of CRAN : https://mran.microsoft.com/ https://mran.microsoft.com/