2020[update], more than 16,000 packages are available. CRAN was created by KurtHornik and Friedrich Leisch in 1997, with the name paralleling other early packing
George Cybenko in 1989 proved it for sigmoid activation functions. KurtHornik [de], Maxwell Stinchcombe, and Halbert White showed in 1989 that multilayer
functionality. The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) was founded in 1997 by KurtHornik and Friedrich Leisch to host R's source code, executable files, documentation
"Contributors". The R Foundation. April 2024. Retrieved 9 June 2024. KurtHornik and the R Core Team (2023). "R FAQ: What is R?". CRAN. Retrieved 9 June