[Rd] Milestone: 12,000 packages on CRAN

[Henrik Bengtsson]

CRAN reached 12,000 packages [1] today (December 15, 2017).

A huge thank you to the CRAN team!

Milestones:

2017-12-15 12000 pkgs (+6.1/day over 165 days) 6910 mnts (+3.2/day)
2017-07-04 11000 pkgs (+6.3/day over 159 days) 6377 mnts (+3.3/day)
2017-01-27 10000 pkgs (+6.3/day over 158 days) 5845 mnts (+3.5/day)
2016-08-22 9000 pkgs (+5.7/day over 175 days) 5289 mnts (+5.8/day)
2016-02-29 8000 pkgs (+5.0/day over 201 days) 4279 mnts (+0.7/day)
2015-08-12 7000 pkgs (+3.4/day over 287 days) 4130 mnts (+2.4/day)
2014-10-29 6000 pkgs (+3.0/day over 335 days) 3444 mnts (+1.6/day)
2013-11-08 5000 pkgs (+2.7/day over 442 days) 2900 mnts (+1.2/day)
2012-08-23 4000 pkgs (+2.1/day over 469 days) 2350 mnts
2011-05-12 3000 pkgs (+1.7/day over 585 days)
2009-10-04 2000 pkgs (+1.1/day over 906 days)
2007-04-12 1000 pkgs
2004-10-01 500 pkgs
2003-04-01 250 pkgs
2002-09-17 68 pkgs
1997-04-23 12 pkgs

These data are for CRAN only [1-14]. There are many more packages
elsewhere, e.g. Bioconductor, GitHub, R-Forge etc.

[1] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)#Milestones
[3] https://www.r-pkg.org/
[4] Legacy data collected privately
[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
[13] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2016-August/073011.html
[14] Local CRAN mirror data (https://cran.r-project.org/mirror-howto.html)

All the best,

Henrik
(just one of many)