R devel - Aug 2012 - Milestone: 4000 packages on CRAN

Today (2012-08-23) on CRAN [1]:

"Currently, the CRAN package repository features 4001 available
packages."

These packages are maintained by approximately 2350 different folks.

Previous milestones:

2011-05-12: 3,000 packages [1]
2009-10-04: 2,000 packages [2]
2007-04-12: 1,000 packages [3]
2004-10-01:    500 packages [4]
2003-04-01:    250 packages [4]

[1] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/
[2] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2009-October/055049.html
[3] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2007-April/045359.html
[4] My private in-house data.
[5] http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_summary_by_maintainer.html

/Henrik

PS. This count includes only packages on CRAN.  There are more
packages elsewhere.

R-release:

edd at max:~$ r -e 'AP <-
available.packages(contrib.url("http://cran.r-project.org"));
print(dim(AP)[1])'
[1] 3988
edd at max:~$ 

R-devel (version as of a few days ago):

edd at max:~$ ~/bin/Rscript-devel.sh -e 'AP <-
available.packages(contrib.url("http://cran.r-project.org"));
print(dim(AP)[1])'
[1] 3988
edd at max:~$ 

There is a bug somewhere if another count gives 4001.

Dirk

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