[Rd] Milestone: 4000 packages on CRAN

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 23/08/2012 20:30, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> R-release:
>
> edd at max:~$ r -e 'AP <- available.packages(contrib.url("http://cran.r-project.org")); print(dim(AP)[1])'
> [1] 3988
> edd at max:~$
>
> R-devel (version as of a few days ago):
>
> edd at max:~$ ~/bin/Rscript-devel.sh -e 'AP <- available.packages(contrib.url("http://cran.r-project.org")); print(dim(AP)[1])'
> [1] 3988
> edd at max:~$
>
> There is a bug somewhere if another count gives 4001.

Hint: available.packages() has filters, so you are not seeing the 
Windows-only packages.

Note too that the number of packages on CRAN is not monotone: packages 
get added, packages get withdrawn/archived, sometimes 10s at a time.


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