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<p><strong>Managing packages in production is a lot of work: you have to juggle between versions, internal packages, CRAN updates, Bioconductor, GitHub sourcesâ€¦ Let’s have a look into RStudio Package Manager, one of the tools available that helps you dealing with this.</strong></p>
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<h2>What is <del>love</del> RSPM (Baby don't hurt me, no more <img alt="ðŸŽ¶" src="https://i2.wp.com/s.w.org/images/core/emoji/11/72x72/1f3b6.png?w=456&ssl=1" class="wp-smiley" data-recalc-dims="1">)</h2>
<p>RStudio Package Manager (or RSPM for short) is a <strong>solution designed to help you to deal with the installation of packages in your organisation</strong>. Wether you need to make available to your team<strong> the whole CRAN through a proxy, a selection of the CRAN, GitHub packages, internal packages</strong>, etc, you can use <strong>RSPM as a central point for managing that</strong>.</p>
<p>It can also be useful if you have an <strong>network connection which is handled through a proxy</strong>, as RPSM can be configured to work with a proxy. You'll then have an internal access to a specific package repository.</p>
<h2>Install RSPM</h2>
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<p>RSPM is available for trial for 45 days, you can get it on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.rstudio.com/products/package-manager/" target="_blank">RStudio Package Manager</a>. You can install it on Red Hat, CentOS, SUSE and Ubuntu (See <a rel="nofollow" href="http://docs.rstudio.com/rspm/admin/getting-started.html#sysreqs" target="_blank">here</a> for the precise specs).</p>
<p>Once it is installed and running, the default port it is 4242, so you can access it withÂ <code>http://</code>