[Rd] Milestone: 8000 packages on CRAN

[Henrik Bengtsson]

Thank you Gergely - great work.

So on planet CRAN with have a large living population of packages and
some deceased packages of the past ... and then there are packages
that reincarnate one or more times.

I wonder how long it will be before someone makes this into an R data
package? ;)

Cheers,

Henrik

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 12:11 AM, Gergely Daróczi <daroczig at rapporter.net> wrote:
> 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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