[Rd] R CMD INSTALL - problem with working directory

Dear R-Devels, I installed on my Mac OS X 10.9 system several R-3.0.2 versions, differing by the compiler used to build R. I can load them via my environment-modules. Now, what I want to have is for each version an own working directory such that .RData and .Rhistory are not loaded from a diff

[Rd] CRAN package 5000

Package 'quint' brought the number of packages on CRAN (for all platforms: some are Windows-only or non-Windows only) to 5000 a few minutes ago: see http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/index.html . -- Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, h

Re: [Rd] CRAN package 5000

Congratulations, that's quite a milestone! Many thanks to you and the other CRAN volunteers for reviewing, responding to, and approving all of these contributions, and for maintaining the CRAN infrastructure itself. # David -- David M Smith VP of Marketing, Revolution Analytics http://blog.revo

[Rd] Milestone: 5000 packages on CRAN

Here we go again... Today (2011-11-08) on The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) [1]: "Currently, the CRAN package repository features 5001 available packages." Going from 4000 to 5000 packages took 14.5 months - that's one new package every 10.5 hours. Behind every package there are real pe

Re: [Rd] Milestone: 5000 packages on CRAN

> "Currently, the CRAN package repository features 5001 available packages." > > Going from 4000 to 5000 packages took 14.5 months - that's one new package > every 10.5 hours. Behind every package there are real people. These > user-contributed packages are maintained by ~2900 people [2] - that's

Re: [Rd] Milestone: 5000 packages on CRAN

CRAN size has grown almost exponentially at least since 2001. R history was discussed by John Fox (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 his data plus 5