An update for MRAN

MRAN, the Microsoft R Application Network has been migrated to a new high-performance, high-availability server, and we've taken the opportunity to make a few upgrades along the way. You shouldn't notice any breaking changes (of course if you do, please let us know), but you should notice faster performance for the MRAN site and for the checkpoint package. (MRAN is also the home of daily archives of CRAN, which checkpoint relies on to deliver specific package versions for its reproducibility functions.)

Among the improvements you will find:

• Faster search of R packages, including links to package vignettes and a dependencies graph for related packages.
• Additional resources for R users, including R Community links.
• A new "R Tools" menu, with links to other software platforms that integrate R.
• Streamlined download experience for Microsoft R Open, which no longer requires a separate install for accelerated math libraries.

As always, you can find MRAN at mran.microsoft.com.

Comments

[Mark Adamson]

Good news, a long time coming. Do you know it was down yesterday? Presumably due to the migration. It would be nice to see some acknowledgement of that.

[David Smith]

Yes, there were a couple of DNS-related breaks in service for MRAN and checkpoint during the server switchover, but all issues should be resolved now.

[طراحی موشن گرافیک]

I love this blog a lot.
Thank you for this post.Good news, a long time coming.

[Olyerickson]

Thanks for posting this. We definitely experienced problems after the change was made; we see the following for any package we attempt to install from MRAN:

> install.packages("aimPlot")
Warning in install.packages :
unable to access index for repository https://mran.microsoft.com/snapshot/2017-09-01/src/contrib:
Line starting 'Documen ...' is malformed!
Installing package into ‘/home/olyerickson/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.3’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Error in install.packages : unknown input format