[Rd] if(!CRAN()){...}
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Sat Nov 3 16:37:24 CET 2012
On 01/11/2012 23:37, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 12-11-01 6:20 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote:
>>> You're writing to the wrong place: you should be asking CRAN this
>>> question.
>>> Their email is cran at r-project.org. They generally don't discuss their
>>> operations in R-devel.
>>
>> Who is CRAN? Is that publicly available information?
>
> Why don't you ask them? If they don't want to discuss things in
> R-devel, it seems rather rude to talk *about* them here.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
CRAN is not a single operation: it is a repository for packages, a
website, an ftp and rsync server, a set of mirrors, a distributed check
farm .... Many aspects, e.g. the task views, binary packages, are
delegated.
'Who is CRAN' implies a single person, but hundreds of people help
operate the services. The instigator (in 1997) and prime mover is Kurt
Hornik (but you knew that).
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