What data exist on the growth of CRAN?
John Fox published some data on it in 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 those numbers plus some additions of mine since. If
anyone else has other numbers (or more accurate numbers), I'd like to know.
I plan to add a "CRANpackages" data set to the
"Ecdat" package
with a title, "Growth of CRAN" unless someone else provides better
numbers or title. [If it already exists on CRAN, I'd like to know. I
doubt if it does, because I couldn't find it with findFn{sos} for
'number of CRAN packages' and 'growth of CRAN'.]
Thanks,
Spencer
date packages
2001-06-21 110
2001-12-17 129
2002-06-12 162
2003-05-27 219
2003-11-16 273
2004-06-05 357
2004-10-12 406
2005-06-18 548
2005-12-16 647
2006-05-31 739
2006-12-12 911
2007-04-12 1000
2007-11-16 1300
2008-03-18 1427
2008-10-18 1614
2009-09-17 1952
2012-06-12 3786
2012-11-01 4082
2012-12-14 4210
2013-10-28 4960
2013-11-08 5000
2014-04-13 5428
* NOTE: These numbers may differ slightly from other sources. Numbers
through 2009 were read from a plot in Fox's paper. Numbers since were
read at an arbitrary time during the day, Pacific time, from a mirror in
the United States and could differ from those recorded by someone else
using a different mirror having the same date in local time someplace
else.
Dear Spencer, I've attached the most recent data I have, which are from mid-2012. My package counts came from https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-*-branch/tests/internet.Rout.save (where the * is the R version). I hope this helps, John> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Spencer Graves > Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 12:59 PM > To: R list > Subject: [R] Growth of CRAN? > > What data exist on the growth of CRAN? > > > John Fox published some data on it in 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 those numbers plus some additions of mine since. If > anyone else has other numbers (or more accurate numbers), I'd like to > know. > > > I plan to add a "CRANpackages" data set to the "Ecdat" package > with a title, "Growth of CRAN" unless someone else provides better > numbers or title. [If it already exists on CRAN, I'd like to know. I > doubt if it does, because I couldn't find it with findFn{sos} for > 'number of CRAN packages' and 'growth of CRAN'.] > > > Thanks, > Spencer > > > date packages > 2001-06-21 110 > 2001-12-17 129 > 2002-06-12 162 > 2003-05-27 219 > 2003-11-16 273 > 2004-06-05 357 > 2004-10-12 406 > 2005-06-18 548 > 2005-12-16 647 > 2006-05-31 739 > 2006-12-12 911 > 2007-04-12 1000 > 2007-11-16 1300 > 2008-03-18 1427 > 2008-10-18 1614 > 2009-09-17 1952 > 2012-06-12 3786 > 2012-11-01 4082 > 2012-12-14 4210 > 2013-10-28 4960 > 2013-11-08 5000 > 2014-04-13 5428 > > > * NOTE: These numbers may differ slightly from other sources. Numbers > through 2009 were read from a plot in Fox's paper. Numbers since were > read at an arbitrary time during the day, Pacific time, from a mirror > in > the United States and could differ from those recorded by someone else > using a different mirror having the same date in local time someplace > else. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.-------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: packages-updated.txt URL: <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20140413/002e7c71/attachment-0002.txt>
For finer level detail, have a look at https://github.com/hadley/cran-packages. It contains the description file of every package ever uploaded to CRAN (the cache is a few months out of date, but you can easily re-run) Hadley On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com> wrote:> What data exist on the growth of CRAN? > > > John Fox published some data on it in 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 those numbers plus some additions of mine since. If anyone else > has other numbers (or more accurate numbers), I'd like to know. > > > I plan to add a "CRANpackages" data set to the "Ecdat" package with a > title, "Growth of CRAN" unless someone else provides better numbers or > title. [If it already exists on CRAN, I'd like to know. I doubt if it does, > because I couldn't find it with findFn{sos} for 'number of CRAN packages' > and 'growth of CRAN'.] > > > Thanks, > Spencer > > > date packages > 2001-06-21 110 > 2001-12-17 129 > 2002-06-12 162 > 2003-05-27 219 > 2003-11-16 273 > 2004-06-05 357 > 2004-10-12 406 > 2005-06-18 548 > 2005-12-16 647 > 2006-05-31 739 > 2006-12-12 911 > 2007-04-12 1000 > 2007-11-16 1300 > 2008-03-18 1427 > 2008-10-18 1614 > 2009-09-17 1952 > 2012-06-12 3786 > 2012-11-01 4082 > 2012-12-14 4210 > 2013-10-28 4960 > 2013-11-08 5000 > 2014-04-13 5428 > > > * NOTE: These numbers may differ slightly from other sources. Numbers > through 2009 were read from a plot in Fox's paper. Numbers since were read > at an arbitrary time during the day, Pacific time, from a mirror in the > United States and could differ from those recorded by someone else using a > different mirror having the same date in local time someplace else. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.-- http://had.co.nz/