[Rd] Milestone: 1000 packages on CRAN as of today(?)

[Henrik Bengtsson]

Hi,

I was just looking at the "CRAN Daily Package Check Results"
[http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/checkSummary.html], and
realized there are 1000 packages on CRAN as of today (look at row 3 in
the table below).  Yet another quite extraordinary milestone in R
history.

Last updated on 2007-04-12 11:48:32

Results for installing and checking packages using the three current
flavors of R on systems running Debian GNU/Linux testing (r-devel
ix86: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ (2GHz), r-devel x86_64: Dual Core AMD
Opteron(tm) Processor 280, r-prerel/r-release: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4
CPU 2.66GHz), MacOS X 10.4.7 (iMac, Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz), and
Windows Server 2003 SP2 (32-bit) (AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+).

	Flavor 	OS 	CPU 	OK 	WARN 	ERROR 	Total
1 	r-devel 	Linux 	ix86 	769 	135 	32 	936
2 	r-devel 	Linux 	x86_64 	523 	101 	36 	660
3 	r-prerel 	Linux 	ix86 	816 	154 	30 	1000
4 	r-prerel 	MacOS_X 	ix86 	738 	160 	95 	993
5 	r-prerel 	Windows 	x86_64 	787 	142 	36 	965
6 	r-release 	Linux 	ix86 	919 	63 	15 	997
7 	r-release 	Windows 	x86_64 	908 	50 	19 	977

Hope those WARN and ERROR packages will turn into OK before the 2.5.0
release.  I've tried to do my contribution ;)

While maintaining R at my previous place, I kept track on the number
of package installed, which included almost all CRAN packages, except
a few hard-to-install ones, plus some Bioconductor packages.  This is
my summary:

  20020917   68, R v1.5.1
  20030326 206, R v1.6.2
  20030424 269, R v1.6.2
  20030903 298, R v1.7.1
  20031015 306, R v1.7.1
  20031126 352, R v1.7.1
  20040310 370, R v1.8.1
  20040525 411, R v1.9.0
  20041005 459, R v1.9.1
  20041217 506, R v2.0.1
  20060217 698, R v2.2.1

Quite a growth.  Are there any "official" records like these?

Cheers

Henrik