are you looking for the 'old sources' link shown on every package homepage
on CRAN?

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ggplot2/  > 'old sources' >
http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/ggplot2/



On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Mario Bourgoin <m...@media.mit.edu> wrote:

> Dear Sir or Madam,
>
> The group of people with whom I work is now convinced of the usefulness of
> using R and its packages to meet our needs for statistical analysis.  It
> has become important that R programs and scripts we create today can be run
> by someone else tomorrow, so need to use version-control.  For this to work
> well, we need to version-control not just our code, but also R and the CRAN
> packages we use.  (We only use CRAN for now.)  Fortunately, R is under
> Subversion, and many CRAN packages are under Subversion in R-Forge.
> However, many CRAN packages do not appear to be available from R-Forge.
>
> 1- Are all CRAN packages available from some repository under version
> control?  (My guess is ``no.'')
> 2- Is there an identifier on CRAN that flags a package as under version
> control in a repository?  (My guess is ``no.'')
> 3- How does CRAN do version control for non-repository packages?  (My guess
> is ``through the generosity of volunteer administrators'' though I would
> prefer that some version control software be involved.)
> 4- Should we decide to create a local source repository to meet our needs?
> (My guess is ``that depends.'')
> 5- Where might I find examples of groups creating and maintaining local
> source repositories for R and its packages?
>
> Sincerely,
> --
> Mario Bourgoin
>
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