[R] R Packages Crack the 3,000 Mark!

[Peter Dalgaard]

Stephan Kolassa wrote:
> Hi Bob,
> 
> Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone have a program that graphs the growth of R packages? I don't
>> know if that historical data is around.
> 
> John Fox had a slide on this in his useR 2008 talk "The Social 
> Organization of the R Project" (page 7), with package counts up to March 
> 2008. As "Source of Data" he gave https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/. 
> I've been digging around in there but really have no idea how he found 
> the relevant data there.
> 
> I'd be quite interested in this, too, so if you find out anything please 
> drop me a line...

I believe he looked inside tests/internet.Rout.save

This has

 > nrow(available.packages(contrib.url("http://cran.r-project.org")))
[1] 2008

and gets updated at each release.

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