R Package

Definitions

1. The standard unit of distributable, reusable code in R, consisting of functions, datasets, documentation, and a DESCRIPTION file defining metadata and dependencies. R packages are typically hosted on CRAN (the Comprehensive R Archive Network) and installed via install.packages().

   In plain English: A bundled collection of R code, data, and documentation that anyone can download and use to add new capabilities to R.

   Example: "We wrote an internal R package for our custom statistical models so every analyst uses the same validated implementation."

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