Oh certainly. I'm not biased one way or another, as I'm pretty ignorant of what's available. I've just been getting into the R space myself in the last few mont

Oh certainly. I'm not biased one way or another, as I'm pretty ignorant of what's available. I've just been getting into the R space myself in the last few months in what free time I have available after work. My understanding of MRAN is that it's also something of a 'checkpoint' system for R package releases, so that you can distribute your r scripts with the version # of the packages used so that if anyone else runs them, they'll use the same packages and get the same results. It sounds much like the 'dll hell' of VB/C++ in the 90s.