The JFrog Artifactory integration with CRAN allows you to manage CRAN collections in Artifactory. Artifactory natively supports CRAN repositories for the R language, giving you full control of your deployment and resolving process of CRAN packages. The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) is a collection of sites that carry identical material, consisting of R distributions, contributed extensions, R documentation, and binaries. R is a programming language and free software environment dedicated to statistical computing and graphics that the R Foundation for Statistical Computing supports. The R language is widely used for developing statistical software and data analysis by data miners and statisticians.
CRAN repositories in Artifactory provide secure and private local repositories with fine-grained access control, enable proxying of remote CRAN resources and caching of downloaded packages for network independence, support virtual repositories with a single URL for managing resolution and deployment of all CRAN packages, calculate metadata for hosted packages, manage versioning by archiving older package versions, and handle both source and binary management.
For more information, see CRAN documentation.