miniCRAN

0.3.2

Create a Mini Version of CRAN Containing Only Selected Packages

2packages depend

19.7Kdownloads / year

79.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Andrie de VriesFirst published 2014-07-2918 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Makes it possible to create an internally consistent repository consisting of selected packages from CRAN-like repositories. The user specifies a set of desired packages, and 'miniCRAN' recursively reads the dependency tree for these packages, then downloads only this subset. The user can then install packages from this repository directly, rather than from CRAN. This is useful in production settings, e.g. server behind a firewall, or remote locations with slow (or zero) Internet access.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("miniCRAN", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("andrie/miniCRAN")

Development version from andrie/miniCRAN. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-minicran

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-miniCRAN

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.3 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.76

79.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-04-23
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-11
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-01
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-26
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 83%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 50%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

19.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,039 · ~54/day · ~1.6K/mo

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19.7K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ andrie/minicran

166Stars

43Forks

16Open issues

2Open PRs

12Releases

611Commits

13Contributors

rr-packager-statspackage-managementcran

License GPL-2.0 · 611 commits · Last activity 2026-05-15 · +1.2% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-24 · 1622026-07-16 · 166

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/andrie/minicran on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Codecov

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (8)

graphicshttrmethodsstatstoolsutilsigraph assertthat

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

devtools knitr rmarkdown testthat covr withr mockery testthis roxygen2 mockr spelling

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

deepdep microCRAN

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Andrie de Vries

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Andrie de Vries

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Contributors (1)

Alex Chubaty

Contributor · added in 0.2.2

Andrie de Vries

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Microsoft Corporation

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Revolution Analytics

no longer listed · 0.1-0 to 0.2.7

Package Timeline

18 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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2022-02-14 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-02-14
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-02-13
policy violation On Internet access
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-07-29
Total releases: 18 / 12 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Bundled data: 169 KB / 1 file
Download size: 4.0 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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