Dear All,

I have put together a simple web service that notifies you about new and
updated R packages and/or if CRAN package checks fail for your packages. It
is all done via RSS feeds and there is a short description at
http://cranky.igraph.org

The feeds are dynamically created, so you don't have to subscribe for
updates and checks about all packages, but you can follow a single package,
packages by a given author or maintainer, the (reverse) dependencies of a
package, etc. You can even get a feed with packages whose description
contains a keyword. Here are some simple examples:

All packages:
http://cranky.igraph.org/feed/news

Packages that depend on the ggplot2 package:
http://cranky.igraph.org/feed/news/uses/ggplot2

Packages 'ggplot2' depends on:
http://cranky.igraph.org/feed/news/usedby/ggplot2

Packages by a single person:
http://cranky.igraph.org/feed/news/author/youknowitall

Packages that contain 'network' in the description field:
http://cranky.igraph.org/feed/news/description/network

All package checks:
http://cranky.igraph.org/feed/checks

All packages checks for ggplot2 dependencies:
http://cranky.igraph.org/feed/checks/usedby/ggplot2

I have created this for my own needs, and have been using it for a couple
of weeks now. I thought it might be useful for others as well. It could be
a lot more flexible, e.g. a complex search feature would be great, but I
think it is already useful as it is.

Note that this is independent of CRAN and the R website, so please don't
bother R-core or CRAN maintainers about possible bugs or questions. Contant
me directly instead or report a bug on github, see http://cranky.igraph.org.

Best,
Gabor

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