Unit - 1

Introduction to R
CRAN- Comprehensive R Archive Network

Kamakshaiah Musunuru
Dhruva College of Management

September 12, 2013

What is CRAN?

What is CRAN?

Where can you get R? For R project: http://r-project.org For CRAN: http://cran.r-project.org/ For contributed packages: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/

The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) is a collection of sites which carry identical material, consisting of the R distribution(s), the contributed extensions, documentation for R, and binaries. The CRAN master site at WU (Wirtschaftsuniversit at Wien) in Austria can be found at the URL http://CRAN.R-project.org/ The other mirrors are:
Mirror http://cran.at.R-project.org/ http://cran.au.R-project.org/ http://cran.br.R-project.org/ http://cran.ch.R-project.org/ http://cran.dk.R-project.org/ http://cran.es.R-project.org/ http://cran.fr.R-project.org/ http://cran.pt.R-project.org/ http://cran.uk.R-project.org/ http://cran.za.R-project.org/ Institute (WU Wien, Austria) (PlanetMirror, Australia) (Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil) (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) (SunSITE, Denmark) (Spanish National Research Network, Madrid, Spain) (INRA, Toulouse, France) (Universidade do Porto, Portugal) (U of Bristol, United Kingdom) (Rhodes U, South Africa)

For more comprehensive list of mirrors, visit: http://CRAN.R-project.org/mirrors.html for a complete list of mirrors. Please use the CRAN site closest to you to reduce network load.

For more descriptive observations Please visit http://cran.r-project.org/mirmon_report.html

For more descriptive observations Please visit http://cran.r-project.org/mirmon_report.html

What do you observe?

A better place for information on R installation and Administration; you can refer to: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html; for PDF: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html

For project:

For packages:

Contributed packages:

Package site:

Thank You!