[Rd] Milestone: 9000 packages on CRAN

[Bob Rudis]

Hear! Hear! +100 for the shout out to the CRAN volunteers. Some of the most
unsung heroes of the R universe.

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 5:16 AM, Henrik Bengtsson <
henrik.bengtsson at gmail.com> wrote:

> An additional 1000 packages have been added to CRAN.  This time, it
> took less than 6 months. Today (August 22, 2016), the Comprehensive R
> Archive Network (CRAN) [1] reports:
>
> “Currently, the CRAN package repository features 9004 available packages.”
>
> The rate with which new packages are added to CRAN is increasing.
> During 2007-2009 we went from 1000 to 2000 packages in 906 days (1.1
> per day) and in 2014-2015 we went from 6000 to 7000 packages in 287
> days (3.4 per day). The next 1000 packages took 201 days (5.0 per day)
> and these most recent 1000 packages took only 175 days (5.7 per day).
> With this speedup, we should hit 10000 packages on CRAN early 2017.
>
> Since the start of CRAN on April 23, 1997 [2], there has been on
> average one new package appearing on CRAN every 18.8 hours - actually
> even more than that because dropped/archived packages are not
> accounted for. The 9000 packages on CRAN are maintained by 5289 people
> [3].
>
> A big thank you to the R core, the CRAN team (!), to all package
> developers, to our friendly community, to everyone out there helping
> others, and to various online services that simplify package
> development. We can all give back by carefully reporting bugs to the
> maintainers, properly citing any packages you use in your publications
> (see citation("pkg name")), and help new comers to use R.
>
> Milestones:
>
> 2016-08-22: 9000 packages [this post]
> 2016-02-29: 8000 packages [12]
> 2015-08-12: 7000 packages [11]
> 2014-10-29: 6000 packages [10]
> 2013-11-08: 5000 packages [9]
> 2012-08-23: 4000 packages [8]
> 2011-05-12: 3000 packages [7]
> 2009-10-04: 2000 packages [6]
> 2007-04-12: 1000 packages [5]
> 2004-10-01: 500 packages [4]
> 2003-04-01: 250 packages [4]
>
> These data are for CRAN only. There are many more packages elsewhere,
> e.g. R-Forge, Bioconductor, Github etc.
>
> [1] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)#Milestones
> [3] http://www.r-pkg.org/
> [4] Private data
> [5] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2007-April/045359.html
> [6] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2009-October/055049.html
> [7] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2011-May/061002.html
> [8] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2012-August/064675.html
> [9] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2013-November/067935.html
> [10] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2014-October/069997.html
> [11] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2015q3/000393.html
> [12] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2016-February/072388.html
>
> All the best,
>
> Henrik
>
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