Stan R package repository

So for example, rOpenSci has http://packages.ropensci.org/ which is just a Jenkins landing page. But the UI does not really matter as it would be used inside R not from the browser. The main thing is that src/contrib returns a list of packages, that src/contrib/PACKAGES returns a file and that we have tar.gz files in src/contrib.

Example:

Rstan source package is 1 MB, its MacOS binary is ~20MB and its Windows binary I think ~5MB. And that package is probably among the largest we would host (rstanarm is a bit bigger but this is the general ballpark for largest packages) .

RStan has 85K downloads per month on CRAN, this would definitely much less than that. Would it handle lets says 1k per month or 10k?

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