[R] Growth of CRAN?

[Hadley Wickham]

For finer level detail, have a look at
https://github.com/hadley/cran-packages. It contains the description
file of every package ever uploaded to CRAN (the cache is a few months
out of date, but you can easily re-run)

Hadley

On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Spencer Graves
<spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com> wrote:
>       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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