Posit Public Package Manager
R and Python packages, built for speed
Pre-built Linux binaries, date-based snapshots, and Bioconductor support. No account required. No cost.
Everything included, nothing required
Pre-built R binaries
Install R packages in seconds. Posit Public Package Manager provides binaries for Linux, macOS, and Windows, so you skip compilation errors. Linux support spans 10 distributions with ARM64 and portable manylinux for additional distros.
Snapshot URLs
Pin your environment to a specific date. Snapshot URLs freeze packages to the versions available on that date, so you can reproduce your work months or years later.
Vulnerability visibility
Package detail pages show known CVEs from the Open Source Vulnerabilities (OSV) database. See what vulnerabilities affect a package before you install it.
Bioconductor support
Life sciences and genomics packages with date-based snapshots for reproducibility, hosted alongside CRAN and PyPI. Pin Bioconductor to the same snapshot date as your CRAN packages.
Get started
Configure in one line
Setting up Posit Public Package Manager takes a single configuration line in R or Python. Once configured, every package install pulls from Posit's servers with pre-built binaries when available.
Our commitment
Built for the community, hosted by Posit.
Posit is a Public Benefit Corporation, committed to public benefit alongside shareholder value. Posit Public Package Manager is a concrete expression of that commitment, built and hosted at Posit's expense so the R and Python community has fast, reliable, reproducible package access. It's part of a broader open-source investment that includes the tidyverse, Shiny, Quarto, and dozens of other packages, because we believe the tools that power data science should be accessible to everyone.
In production
Reliably delivering where it counts
Trusted by platforms like Databricks for reliable R and Python package delivery.
31K+
CRAN packages with pre-built Linux binaries
61M+
Package downloads served last month
10+
Linux distributions with pre-built R binaries, plus manylinux
50K+
Open-source projects using Posit Public Package Manager
Trusted by open-source projects worldwide
From data engineering frameworks to clinical research tools, teams across the open-source ecosystem rely on Posit Public Package Manager for fast, reproducible package access.
Apache Arrow
Columnar in-memory analytics
JupyterHub repo2docker
Turn repos into Jupyter-enabled Docker images
DuckDB R client
DuckDB database interface for R
rocker-versioned2
Versioned R Docker images
pharmaR/riskassessment
Risk assessment app for R packages
rstudio/renv
R dependency management
r-lib/pak
Modern R package installation
Posit Package Manager
When your team needs more governance
Posit Public Package Manager covers package access, speed, and reproducibility. When your organization needs to control approved packages, block vulnerable versions, or deploy behind your firewall, Package Manager adds:
- Curated repositories with approved package subsets
- Vulnerability blocking with allowlist overrides
- Git builders for internal packages
- MCP server for AI assistant governance
- SSO authentication and audit logging
- Air-gapped deployment