[R] Growth of CRAN?

[Hadley Wickham]

Yes, because it has every version of every DESCRIPTION.

Hadley

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Spencer Graves
<spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com> wrote:
> Hi, Hadley:
>
>
>
> On 4/14/2014 5:53 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote:
>>
>> 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 out of date, but you can easily re-run)
>
>
>
>       Can that be mined to get the date of first commit to CRAN? Dates in
> description files are sometimes updated.  Example:  The "Date" in the
> Description file for the version of "fda" now on CRAN is 2013-05, but fda
> was on CRAN at least in 2006 and probably earlier.  You are listed as second
> author on that package based on work you did in by 2006.
>
>
>       Spencer
>
>
>> 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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>>
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