About the Package Management category

Topics related to managing packages in Posit, and community support for the Posit Public Package Manager (recently called the RStudio Public Package Manager).

Posit Package Manager is a hosted instance of Posit Package Manager for community use. Posit Public Package Manager provides a CRAN repository and Bioconductor repository with features such as:

  • Precompiled binary packages for faster installations on Linux and Windows (CRAN packages only)
  • Repository checkpoints for reproducibility across time
  • System dependency information for R packages

Posit does not provide professional support for Posit Public Package Manager. If you need help, this is the right place. If you're reporting a problem, please create a topic using with the package-manager tag.

See also the FAQ for Posit Public Package Manager.