Repository details

Comprehensive R Archive Network

Name of repository
Comprehensive R Archive Network
Additional name(s)
  • CRAN
Repository URL
https://cran.r-project.org/
Subject(s)
Description
CRAN is a network of ftp and web servers around the world that store identical, up-to-date, versions of code and documentation for R. R is ‘GNU S’, a freely available language and environment for statistical computing and graphics which provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques: linear and nonlinear modelling, statistical tests, time series analysis, classification, clustering, etc. Please consult the R project homepage for further information.
Contact(s)
Keyword(s)
Persistent identifier(s) of the repository
Repository type(s)
  • disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
https://cran.r-project.org/
Research data repository language(s)
  • English
Data and/or service provider
  • dataProvider

Institutions (1)

Institution
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Institut für Statistik und Mathematik
Additional name(s)
  • Vienna University of Economics and Business, Institute for Statistics and Mathematics
Country
Austria
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
1997

Policies (1)

Policy Name
CRAN Repository Policy

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
open

Data access (1)

Type of access to data
open

Data licenses (2)

DataLicense
Copyrights
DataLicense
other

Data upload (1)

Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
  • other

Data upload license (1)

Data upload license name
Submission
Persistent identifier system(s)
  • none
Name of the repository software
  • other
Versioning
yes
Data citation guideline
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html
Enhanced Publication
unknown
Quality management
unknown

Application programming interfaces (2)

Type
FTP
Url
ftp://cran.r-project.org/
Type
FTP
Url
ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/

Remarks

Remarks
CRAN is covered by Thomson Reuters Data Citation Index. is covered by Elsevier. Data is available under GNU license. Mirror sites can be found here https://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html .
Entry date
2013-06-20
Last update
2023-09-13
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re3data.org: Comprehensive R Archive Network; editing status 2023-09-13; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. http://doi.org/10.17616/R3J88J last accessed: 2025-04-26