CRAN reached 12,000 packages [1] today (December 15, 2017). A huge thank you to the CRAN team!
Milestones: 2017-12-15 12000 pkgs (+6.1/day over 165 days) 6910 mnts (+3.2/day) 2017-07-04 11000 pkgs (+6.3/day over 159 days) 6377 mnts (+3.3/day) 2017-01-27 10000 pkgs (+6.3/day over 158 days) 5845 mnts (+3.5/day) 2016-08-22 9000 pkgs (+5.7/day over 175 days) 5289 mnts (+5.8/day) 2016-02-29 8000 pkgs (+5.0/day over 201 days) 4279 mnts (+0.7/day) 2015-08-12 7000 pkgs (+3.4/day over 287 days) 4130 mnts (+2.4/day) 2014-10-29 6000 pkgs (+3.0/day over 335 days) 3444 mnts (+1.6/day) 2013-11-08 5000 pkgs (+2.7/day over 442 days) 2900 mnts (+1.2/day) 2012-08-23 4000 pkgs (+2.1/day over 469 days) 2350 mnts 2011-05-12 3000 pkgs (+1.7/day over 585 days) 2009-10-04 2000 pkgs (+1.1/day over 906 days) 2007-04-12 1000 pkgs 2004-10-01 500 pkgs 2003-04-01 250 pkgs 2002-09-17 68 pkgs 1997-04-23 12 pkgs These data are for CRAN only [1-14]. There are many more packages elsewhere, e.g. Bioconductor, GitHub, R-Forge etc. [1] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)#Milestones [3] https://www.r-pkg.org/ [4] Legacy data collected privately [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 [12] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2016-February/072388.html [13] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2016-August/073011.html [14] Local CRAN mirror data (https://cran.r-project.org/mirror-howto.html) All the best, Henrik (just one of many) ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
