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drat (CRAN, GitHub, docs) makes it easy to host your own CRAN-like repositories for packages (or data).

Many users have started their own drat repo by forking the original GitHub repo -- but as time passes this code repo accumulates more code for drat, as well as documentation making it less of an ideal place to start for your own repo. So this repo offers an alternative:

• Just fork this repo into your own domain, and you have a working drat repo.
• Enable GitHub Pages with the docs/ folder in the main branch:

Note, however, that you currently must use the drat package directly from its GitHub repo in order to use GitHub Pages off docs/ in the main branch---and you need to enable this, e.g. via options(dratBranch="docs") as the released version only supports a gh-pages branch. So in a sense this repo is currently "experimental" as is the support in the not-yet-released drat version.

This repo was initiated (using command dratPackage()) with the source and windows binary of the last CRAN release of drat. You can delete either or both (for example via command pruneRepo()) and then add your own (via insertPackage()).

Dirk Eddelbuettel

GPL (>= 2)