[Rd] Milestone: 12,000 packages on CRAN

[Kevin Coombes]

Cool.

Since I got a package accepted overnight, I'm going to take credit for 
being #12,000....

It does look like the apparent exponential growth in packages may have 
finally come to an end however, collapsing back to something nearly 
linear.  Note that under an exponential growth model, CRAN will reach 
15,000 packages at about Thanksgiving 2018. Under a now-linear model, 
that milestone won't occur until some time in March 2019.  Remember, you 
read it here first.

   Kevin

On 12/15/2017 8:29 AM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> 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)
>
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