[R] Growth of CRAN?

[John Fox]

Dear Spencer,

I've attached the most recent data I have, which are from mid-2012. My
package counts came from
https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-*-branch/tests/internet.Rout.save
(where the * is the R version).

I hope this helps,
 John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Spencer Graves
> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 12:59 PM
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> Subject: [R] Growth of CRAN?
> 
>        What data exist on the growth of CRAN?
> 
> 
>        John Fox published some data on it in 2009 ("Aspects of the
> Social Organization and Trajectory of the R Project", R Journal,
> http://journal.r-project.org/archive/2009-2/RJournal_2009-2_Fox.pdf).
> Below please find those numbers plus some additions of mine since. If
> anyone else has other numbers (or more accurate numbers), I'd like to
> know.
> 
> 
>        I plan to add a "CRANpackages" data set to the "Ecdat" package
> with a title, "Growth of CRAN" unless someone else provides better
> numbers or title.  [If it already exists on CRAN, I'd like to know. I
> doubt if it does, because I couldn't find it with findFn{sos} for
> 'number of CRAN packages' and 'growth of CRAN'.]
> 
> 
>        Thanks,
>        Spencer
> 
> 
> date    packages
> 2001-06-21    110
> 2001-12-17    129
> 2002-06-12    162
> 2003-05-27    219
> 2003-11-16    273
> 2004-06-05    357
> 2004-10-12    406
> 2005-06-18    548
> 2005-12-16    647
> 2006-05-31    739
> 2006-12-12    911
> 2007-04-12    1000
> 2007-11-16    1300
> 2008-03-18    1427
> 2008-10-18    1614
> 2009-09-17    1952
> 2012-06-12    3786
> 2012-11-01    4082
> 2012-12-14    4210
> 2013-10-28    4960
> 2013-11-08    5000
> 2014-04-13    5428
> 
> 
> * NOTE:  These numbers may differ slightly from other sources. Numbers
> through 2009 were read from a plot in Fox's paper.  Numbers since were
> read at an arbitrary time during the day, Pacific time, from a mirror
> in
> the United States and could differ from those recorded by someone else
> using a different mirror having the same date in local time  someplace
> else.
> 
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