whenever there is R compared to any other analytics framework, the number one advantage is cited to be CRAN. And the counter is always that &quot;hey python has wheel&quot;.<p>Does anyone think that a dedicated package site for analytics libraries is what is needed ?<p>From the R documentation:<p><i>In the simplest form, an R package is a directory containing: a DESCRIPTION file (describing the package), a NAMESPACE file (indicating which functions are available to users), an R&#x2F; directory containing R code in .R files, and a man&#x2F; directory containing documentation in .Rd files</i><p>But a python wheel is considerably more complicated.