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R-hub unofficially mirrors CRAN packages to the cran GitHub organization. Each CRAN package lives in its own GitHub repository, e.g. package Rcpp is at https://github.com/cran/Rcpp. All versions of all packages are included, and each version is a separate git commit, tagged with the version number. We tried to keep the original dates and authors/maintainers as well.
The main goal of CRAN @ GitHub is the easy access to the source code or CRAN packages. In particular, you can
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See differences between package versions, e.g. what changed between 1.2.0 and 1.2.1 in crayon.
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Fork packages, and create patched versions of them, for your own purposes.
R-hub mirror of CRAN packages is one of the sources used by Jim Hester's lookup package, that helps you lookup R full function definitions, including compiled code, S3 and S4 methods.