[R] popular R packages

[Gabor Grothendieck]

This function will show which other packages depend on a particular
package:

> dep <- function(pkg, AP = available.packages()) {
+    pkg <- paste("\\b", pkg, "\\b", sep = "")
+    cat("Depends:", rownames(AP)[grep(pkg, AP[, "Depends"])], "\n")
+    cat("Suggests:", rownames(AP)[grep(pkg, AP[, "Suggests"])], "\n")
+ }
> dep("zoo")
Depends: AER BootPR FinTS PerformanceAnalytics RBloomberg
StreamMetabolism TSfame TShistQuote VhayuR dyn dynlm fda fxregime
lmtest meboot party quantmod sandwich sde strucchange tripEstimation
tseries xts
Suggests: TSMySQL TSPostgreSQL TSSQLite TSdbi TSodbc UsingR Zelig
gsubfn playwith pscl tframePlus


On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Jeroen Ooms <j.c.l.ooms at uu.nl> wrote:
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> I would like to get some idea of which R-packages are popular, and what R is
> used for in general. Are there any statistics available on which R packages
> are downloaded often, or is there something like a package-survey? Something
> similar to http://popcon.debian.org/ maybe? Any tips are welcome!
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