A short list of resources and blog posts:

• Introducing miniCRAN: an R package to create a private CRAN repository

• Revisiting package dependencies

• Dependencies of popular R packages

• Presentation at EARL conference, Sept 2014

• Markus Gesman: Managing R package dependencies

• David Smith wrote about Using R in Myanmar (and other low-bandwidth environments), that summarises the work by Ben Marwick. Ben's original post was about Teaching in Yangon.

• Jens Carl Streibig: Using miniCRAN on site in Iran

• Michele Usuelli: Using miniCRAN in Azure ML

• Steph Locke: miniCRAN – developing internal CRAN Repositories

• Karl Broman: miniCRAN

• How to Set Up a Custom CRAN-like Repository