From edd at debian.org  Fri Nov  2 02:02:37 2012
From: edd at debian.org (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 20:02:37 -0500
Subject: [Rd] if(!CRAN()){...}
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On 1 November 2012 at 17:20, 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?

"Sort of" --- quoting from the top of the 'CRAN Repository Policy' page:

      CRAN is maintained by the efforts of volunteers (the ?CRAN team?) and
      the resources of the R Foundation and the employers of those volunteers
      (WU Wien, TU Dortmund, U Oxford, AT&T Research).

Dirk

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[Rd] if(!CRAN()){...}
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