[R] R Packages Crack the 3,000 Mark!

[Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)]

I thought that the unique function would eliminate duplicate package names. Is there a better way to count the number of packages?

Thanks,
Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:ggrothendieck at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 10:40 AM
To: Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] R Packages Crack the 3,000 Mark!

Note that:

- there are also 199 R packages on google code:
http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:R
- some (many?) of the packages on R-Forge and on google code are also on CRAN

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)
<muenchen at utk.edu> wrote:
> Hi Liviu,
>
> Yes, I selected all the repositories on the list, including things like CRAN (extras), the four Bioconductor (BioC) sites, and R-Forge.
>
> Cheers,
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Liviu Andronic [mailto:landronimirc at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 4:47 AM
> To: Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] R Packages Crack the 3,000 Mark!
>
> Hello
>
>
> On 11/24/09, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) <muenchen at utk.edu> wrote:
>>  I don't know if this has been reported before, but according to Henrique
>>  Dallazuanna's program (below) the number of R packages has exceeded the
>>  3,000 mark. The count today is 3,175. I ran this just a couple of months
>>  ago & the number was still in the high 2,000s, so it must be fairly
>>  recent. I think this represents about 50% growth in the last year. Not
>>  bad!
>>
> Performing the same here I get only 2000+ packages.
>> myPackageNames <- available.packages()
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
>> length(unique( rownames(myPackageNames) ))
> [1] 2058
>
> And CRAN [1] reports a similar number. Perhaps you have some
> non-standard repositories configured?
> Liviu
>
> [1] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/
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