[Rd] Milestone: 8000 packages on CRAN

[Gergely Daróczi]

Thank you very much, Henrik, for maintaining this list -- it's always
a pleasure to see the ever growing number of useful R packages!

I decided a few times in the past to extend your research with the
list of archived packages, but did not actually start coding -- until
tonight: https://gist.github.com/daroczig/3cf06d6db4be2bbe3368 (this
includes the a CSV with 9K rows, so might be slow to load -- but it;s
worth waiting, as you get a searchable list of package names, dates &
index)

In short, combining the list of current CRAN packages + the list of
archived packages results in a list with more than 9,000 R packages by
now with the following milestones (using the numbers from your
analysis):

##      date              index   name
##  1: 2016-01-12   9000   dChipIO
##  2: 2015-06-30   8000   gkmSVM
##  3: 2014-10-22   7000   glmvsd
##  4: 2014-02-05   6000   bilan
##  5: 2013-03-20   5000   Rgnuplot
##  6: 2012-06-21   4000   HIBAG
##  7: 2011-04-24   3000   SPECIES
##  8: 2009-09-10   2000   maticce
##  9: 2007-03-11   1000   cairoDevice
## 10: 2005-02-21    500   micEcon
## 11: 2003-03-19    250   polspline

So including the archived packages in this report, 8K was actually
reached at the time of useR! 2015 :)

Best,
Gergely

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Henrik Bengtsson
<henrik.bengtsson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Another 1000 packages were added to CRAN, which took less than 7
> months. Today (February 29, 2017), the Comprehensive R Archive Network
> (CRAN) [1] reports:
>
> “Currently, the CRAN package repository features 8002 available packages.”
>
> The rate with which new packages are added to CRAN is increasing.  In
> 2014-2015 we had 1000 packages added to CRAN in 355 days (2.8 per
> day), the following 1000 packages took 287 days (3.5 per day) and now
> the most recent 1000 packages clocked in at an impressive 201 days
> (5.0 per day).  Since the start of CRAN 18.9 years ago on April 23,
> 1997 [2], there has been on average one new package appearing on CRAN
> every 20.6 hours - it is actually more frequent than that because
> dropped/archived packages are not accounted for. The 8000 packages on
> CRAN are maintained by ~4279 people [3].
>
> Thanks to the CRAN team and to all package developers. You can give
> back by carefully reporting bugs to the maintainers, properly citing
> any packages you use in your publications, cf. citation("pkg name")
> and help out helping others using the R.
>
> Milestones:
>
> 2016-02-29: 8000 packages [this post]
> 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
>
> Thanks
>
> Henrik
> (a long-term fan)
>
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