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<h1><span class="header-section-number">C</span> Updating R and Its Packages</h1>
<p>The R Core Development Team continuously hones the R language by catching bugs, improving performance, and updating R to work with new technologies. As a result, new versions of R are released several times a year. The easiest way to stay current with R is to periodically check <a href="http://cran.r-project.org">the CRAN website</a>. The website is updated for each new release and makes the release available fo