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It looks like this is much more fine grained compared to mran, i.e., with groundhog, you select the date vs with mran where you use the last (often > year old)
by warlog 6y ago
It looks like this is much more fine grained compared to mran, i.e., with groundhog, you select the date vs with mran where you use the last (often > year old)
snapshot.
mran is a great idea and if Rstudio (the defacto gate-keepers of the faith -- with Hadley the high priest) pushed to use mran, then the R community would follow suit (like they do for everything else).
This would do a lot to bring MS into the fold, which would actually be great for R.
- Hansi 6y agoHadley works for RStudio, RStudio now have their own MRAN type mirror: https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/client/#/ https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/client/#/
- kgwgk 6y agoThey have their own package management library https://rstudio.github.io/packrat/ https://rstudio.github.io/packrat/ and sell their own package management product https://rstudio.com/products/package-manager/ https://rstudio.com/products/package-manager/
- jsmith99 6y agoMRAN takes daily snapshots, and is the repository powering this new package.