[Rd] Milestone: 1000 packages on CRAN as of today(?)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

The number of packages on CRAN usable with the current version of R is
recorded from time to time in the file tests/internet.Rout.save.  So e.g. 
on 2001-05-30 there were 106 and on 2004-12-27 there were 433 (rather less 
than you recorded) and on 2005-12-17, 647 (rather more), assuming I got 
the correct versions.

Note that progress is not monotone: there may be 1000 packages but some 
are uninstallable under R 2.5.0 and are likely to be moved to the 
Archive.

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was just looking at the "CRAN Daily Package Check Results"
> [http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/checkSummary.html], and
> realized there are 1000 packages on CRAN as of today (look at row 3 in
> the table below).  Yet another quite extraordinary milestone in R
> history.
>
> Last updated on 2007-04-12 11:48:32
>
> Results for installing and checking packages using the three current
> flavors of R on systems running Debian GNU/Linux testing (r-devel
> ix86: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ (2GHz), r-devel x86_64: Dual Core AMD
> Opteron(tm) Processor 280, r-prerel/r-release: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4
> CPU 2.66GHz), MacOS X 10.4.7 (iMac, Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz), and
> Windows Server 2003 SP2 (32-bit) (AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+).
>
> 	Flavor 	OS 	CPU 	OK 	WARN 	ERROR 	Total
> 1 	r-devel 	Linux 	ix86 	769 	135 	32 	936
> 2 	r-devel 	Linux 	x86_64 	523 	101 	36 	660
> 3 	r-prerel 	Linux 	ix86 	816 	154 	30 	1000
> 4 	r-prerel 	MacOS_X 	ix86 	738 	160 	95 	993
> 5 	r-prerel 	Windows 	x86_64 	787 	142 	36 	965
> 6 	r-release 	Linux 	ix86 	919 	63 	15 	997
> 7 	r-release 	Windows 	x86_64 	908 	50 	19 	977
>
> Hope those WARN and ERROR packages will turn into OK before the 2.5.0
> release.  I've tried to do my contribution ;)
>
> While maintaining R at my previous place, I kept track on the number
> of package installed, which included almost all CRAN packages, except
> a few hard-to-install ones, plus some Bioconductor packages.  This is
> my summary:
>
>  20020917   68, R v1.5.1
>  20030326 206, R v1.6.2
>  20030424 269, R v1.6.2
>  20030903 298, R v1.7.1
>  20031015 306, R v1.7.1
>  20031126 352, R v1.7.1
>  20040310 370, R v1.8.1
>  20040525 411, R v1.9.0
>  20041005 459, R v1.9.1
>  20041217 506, R v2.0.1
>  20060217 698, R v2.2.1
>
> Quite a growth.  Are there any "official" records like these?
>
> Cheers
>
> Henrik
>
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