Thank you Gergely - great work. So on planet CRAN with have a large living population of packages and some deceased packages of the past ... and then there are packages that reincarnate one or more times.
I wonder how long it will be before someone makes this into an R data package? ;) Cheers, Henrik On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 12:11 AM, Gergely Daróczi <daroc...@rapporter.net> wrote: > Thank you very much, Henrik, for maintaining this list -- it's always > a pleasure to see the ever growing number of useful R packages! > > I decided a few times in the past to extend your research with the > list of archived packages, but did not actually start coding -- until > tonight: https://gist.github.com/daroczig/3cf06d6db4be2bbe3368 (this > includes the a CSV with 9K rows, so might be slow to load -- but it;s > worth waiting, as you get a searchable list of package names, dates & > index) > > In short, combining the list of current CRAN packages + the list of > archived packages results in a list with more than 9,000 R packages by > now with the following milestones (using the numbers from your > analysis): > > ## date index name > ## 1: 2016-01-12 9000 dChipIO > ## 2: 2015-06-30 8000 gkmSVM > ## 3: 2014-10-22 7000 glmvsd > ## 4: 2014-02-05 6000 bilan > ## 5: 2013-03-20 5000 Rgnuplot > ## 6: 2012-06-21 4000 HIBAG > ## 7: 2011-04-24 3000 SPECIES > ## 8: 2009-09-10 2000 maticce > ## 9: 2007-03-11 1000 cairoDevice > ## 10: 2005-02-21 500 micEcon > ## 11: 2003-03-19 250 polspline > > So including the archived packages in this report, 8K was actually > reached at the time of useR! 2015 :) > > Best, > Gergely > > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Henrik Bengtsson > <henrik.bengts...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Another 1000 packages were added to CRAN, which took less than 7 >> months. Today (February 29, 2017), the Comprehensive R Archive Network >> (CRAN) [1] reports: >> >> “Currently, the CRAN package repository features 8002 available packages.” >> >> The rate with which new packages are added to CRAN is increasing. In >> 2014-2015 we had 1000 packages added to CRAN in 355 days (2.8 per >> day), the following 1000 packages took 287 days (3.5 per day) and now >> the most recent 1000 packages clocked in at an impressive 201 days >> (5.0 per day). Since the start of CRAN 18.9 years ago on April 23, >> 1997 [2], there has been on average one new package appearing on CRAN >> every 20.6 hours - it is actually more frequent than that because >> dropped/archived packages are not accounted for. The 8000 packages on >> CRAN are maintained by ~4279 people [3]. >> >> Thanks to the CRAN team and to all package developers. You can give >> back by carefully reporting bugs to the maintainers, properly citing >> any packages you use in your publications, cf. citation("pkg name") >> and help out helping others using the R. >> >> Milestones: >> >> 2016-02-29: 8000 packages [this post] >> 2015-08-12: 7000 packages [11] >> 2014-10-29: 6000 packages [10] >> 2013-11-08: 5000 packages [9] >> 2012-08-23: 4000 packages [8] >> 2011-05-12: 3000 packages [7] >> 2009-10-04: 2000 packages [6] >> 2007-04-12: 1000 packages [5] >> 2004-10-01: 500 packages [4] >> 2003-04-01: 250 packages [4] >> >> These data are for CRAN only. There are many more packages elsewhere, >> e.g. R-Forge, Bioconductor, Github etc. >> >> [1] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ >> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)#Milestones >> [3] http://www.r-pkg.org/ >> [4] Private data >> [5] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2007-April/045359.html >> [6] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2009-October/055049.html >> [7] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2011-May/061002.html >> [8] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2012-August/064675.html >> [9] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2013-November/067935.html >> [10] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2014-October/069997.html >> [11] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2015q3/000393.html >> >> Thanks >> >> Henrik >> (a long-term fan) >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
