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- fails: quotaCRAN (Comprehensive R Archive Network)
Storagefree tieridentity email?card?limit per-object-capevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- fails: quotacran
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- fails: quotacran (r)
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
cran.r-project.orgRegistrystorage/cranJSONcomparereport an error
- Free allowance
- Deliberately tiny, by policy.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- per-object-capper-object-cap: 10 MB
- Evidence
- reported2 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | Deliberately tiny, by policy. CRAN policy: 'As a general rule, neither data nor documentation should exceed 5MB ... Source package tarballs should if possible not exceed 10MB.' Larger tarballs need a individually-granted exception ('a modestly increased limit can be requested at submission'). unit mixed; metered on unstated |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated reviewed source
- write-gated review make this unusable for bulk source
- per-object-cap (binding) per-object-cap: 10 MB source
per-object-cap: 10 MB source tarball (soft, 5 MB for data/doc). retention: indefinite per version, old versions archived. request-rate: submission is manual/email-reviewed. |
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| Identity | email (inferred, not read) not published |
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| Egress | Free and globally mirrored (hundreds of CRAN mirrors). No metering. |
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| Per-object cap | per-object-cap: 10 MB (10000000 bytes) |
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| Retention | per-object-cap: 10 MB source tarball (soft, 5 MB for data/doc). retention: indefinite per version, old versions archived |
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| Interface | rest, rclone rest |
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| Tooling | R CMD build + devtools::submit_cran, rhub; mirrored tarballs at /src/contrib/. No rclone backend. |
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| Composes with | unlimited packages x unlimited versions x 10 MB. CRAN is explicitly hostile to bulk data: 'A CRAN package is not an appropriate way to distribute course notes'. Human review on every submission. |
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| Reliability | 10 MB per version and human review make this unusable for bulk; recorded so nobody re-checks it. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- per-object-cap 10 MB
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Evidence 2
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "Deliberately tiny, by policy. CRAN policy: 'As a general rule, neither data nor documentation should exceed 5MB ... Source package tarballs should if possible not exceed 10MB.' Larger tarballs need a individually-granted exception ('a modestly increased limit can be requested at submission').","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 2
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.htmlstorage/cran-2JSONcomparereport an error
- Free allowance
- 10 MB soft cap on source tarballs, 5 MB for data; policy explicitly rejects using packages to distribute bulk content.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported1 source; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | 10 MB soft cap on source tarballs, 5 MB for data; policy explicitly rejects using packages to distribute bulk content. Human review. unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | not recorded |
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| Interface | unknown |
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| Tooling | not recorded |
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Evidence 1
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "write-gated","why": "10 MB soft cap on source tarballs, 5 MB for data; policy explicitly rejects using packages to distribute bulk content. Human review.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 7
- chaining: no value was recorded for this field
- egress terms: no value was recorded for this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: no value was recorded for this field
- per object cap stated: no value was recorded for this field
- retention stated: no value was recorded for this field
- tooling: no value was recorded for this field
cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.htmlstorage/cran-3JSONcomparereport an error
- Free allowance
- Policy explicitly caps and actively polices size: 'neither data nor documentation should exceed 5MB ... authors will be asked to trim their documentation to a maximum of 5MB' and 'Source…
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported1 source; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | Policy explicitly caps and actively polices size: 'neither data nor documentation should exceed 5MB ... authors will be asked to trim their documentation to a maximum of 5MB' and 'Source… unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | not recorded |
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| Interface | unknown |
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| Tooling | not recorded |
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Evidence 1
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "Policy explicitly caps and actively polices size: 'neither data nor documentation should exceed 5MB ... authors will be asked to trim their documentation to a maximum of 5MB' and 'Source…","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 7
- chaining: no value was recorded for this field
- egress terms: no value was recorded for this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: no value was recorded for this field
- per object cap stated: no value was recorded for this field
- retention stated: no value was recorded for this field
- tooling: no value was recorded for this field