There are more than 250 R-cran-* ports. They are R packages. The thing
is that R has its own, very capable package manager which can find
packages, download them, check hash, build, find upgrades. Every
R-cran-* port can be easily installed through R itself, so there is
really no need for these ports.
These ports need to be maintained, updated, looked into when they break.
This duplicates functionality that is already nicely supported by R
itself, and only unnecessarily clogs the ports system. One only needs to
click twice in RStudio to update all outdated R packages, it's so easy.
FreeBSD should consider banning and removing them, in the same way as Go
libraries are banned.
Yuri
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