Another 1000 packages were added to CRAN, which took less than 7
months. Today (February 29, 2017), the Comprehensive R Archive Network
(CRAN) [1] reports:
?Currently, the CRAN package repository features 8002 available packages.?
The rate with which new packages are added to CRAN is increasing. In
2014-2015 we had 1000 packages added to CRAN in 355 days (2.8 per
day), the following 1000 packages took 287 days (3.5 per day) and now
the most recent 1000 packages clocked in at an impressive 201 days
(5.0 per day). Since the start of CRAN 18.9 years ago on April 23,
1997 [2], there has been on average one new package appearing on CRAN
every 20.6 hours - it is actually more frequent than that because
dropped/archived packages are not accounted for. The 8000 packages on
CRAN are maintained by ~4279 people [3].
Thanks to the CRAN team and to all package developers. You can give
back by carefully reporting bugs to the maintainers, properly citing
any packages you use in your publications, cf. citation("pkg name")
and help out helping others using the R.
Milestones:
2016-02-29: 8000 packages [this post]
2015-08-12: 7000 packages [11]
2014-10-29: 6000 packages [10]
2013-11-08: 5000 packages [9]
2012-08-23: 4000 packages [8]
2011-05-12: 3000 packages [7]
2009-10-04: 2000 packages [6]
2007-04-12: 1000 packages [5]
2004-10-01: 500 packages [4]
2003-04-01: 250 packages [4]
These data are for CRAN only. There are many more packages elsewhere,
e.g. R-Forge, Bioconductor, Github etc.
[1] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)#Milestones
[3] http://www.r-pkg.org/
[4] Private data
[5] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2007-April/045359.html
[6] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2009-October/055049.html
[7] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2011-May/061002.html
[8] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2012-August/064675.html
[9] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2013-November/067935.html
[10] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2014-October/069997.html
[11] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2015q3/000393.html
Thanks
Henrik
(a long-term fan)
Thank you very much, Henrik, for maintaining this list -- it's always a pleasure to see the ever growing number of useful R packages! I decided a few times in the past to extend your research with the list of archived packages, but did not actually start coding -- until tonight: https://gist.github.com/daroczig/3cf06d6db4be2bbe3368 (this includes the a CSV with 9K rows, so might be slow to load -- but it;s worth waiting, as you get a searchable list of package names, dates & index) In short, combining the list of current CRAN packages + the list of archived packages results in a list with more than 9,000 R packages by now with the following milestones (using the numbers from your analysis): ## date index name ## 1: 2016-01-12 9000 dChipIO ## 2: 2015-06-30 8000 gkmSVM ## 3: 2014-10-22 7000 glmvsd ## 4: 2014-02-05 6000 bilan ## 5: 2013-03-20 5000 Rgnuplot ## 6: 2012-06-21 4000 HIBAG ## 7: 2011-04-24 3000 SPECIES ## 8: 2009-09-10 2000 maticce ## 9: 2007-03-11 1000 cairoDevice ## 10: 2005-02-21 500 micEcon ## 11: 2003-03-19 250 polspline So including the archived packages in this report, 8K was actually reached at the time of useR! 2015 :) Best, Gergely On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengtsson at gmail.com> wrote:> Another 1000 packages were added to CRAN, which took less than 7 > months. Today (February 29, 2017), the Comprehensive R Archive Network > (CRAN) [1] reports: > > ?Currently, the CRAN package repository features 8002 available packages.? > > The rate with which new packages are added to CRAN is increasing. In > 2014-2015 we had 1000 packages added to CRAN in 355 days (2.8 per > day), the following 1000 packages took 287 days (3.5 per day) and now > the most recent 1000 packages clocked in at an impressive 201 days > (5.0 per day). Since the start of CRAN 18.9 years ago on April 23, > 1997 [2], there has been on average one new package appearing on CRAN > every 20.6 hours - it is actually more frequent than that because > dropped/archived packages are not accounted for. The 8000 packages on > CRAN are maintained by ~4279 people [3]. > > Thanks to the CRAN team and to all package developers. You can give > back by carefully reporting bugs to the maintainers, properly citing > any packages you use in your publications, cf. citation("pkg name") > and help out helping others using the R. > > Milestones: > > 2016-02-29: 8000 packages [this post] > 2015-08-12: 7000 packages [11] > 2014-10-29: 6000 packages [10] > 2013-11-08: 5000 packages [9] > 2012-08-23: 4000 packages [8] > 2011-05-12: 3000 packages [7] > 2009-10-04: 2000 packages [6] > 2007-04-12: 1000 packages [5] > 2004-10-01: 500 packages [4] > 2003-04-01: 250 packages [4] > > These data are for CRAN only. There are many more packages elsewhere, > e.g. R-Forge, Bioconductor, Github etc. > > [1] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)#Milestones > [3] http://www.r-pkg.org/ > [4] Private data > [5] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2007-April/045359.html > [6] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2009-October/055049.html > [7] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2011-May/061002.html > [8] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2012-August/064675.html > [9] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2013-November/067935.html > [10] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2014-October/069997.html > [11] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2015q3/000393.html > > Thanks > > Henrik > (a long-term fan) > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Thank you Gergely - great work. So on planet CRAN with have a large living population of packages and some deceased packages of the past ... and then there are packages that reincarnate one or more times. I wonder how long it will be before someone makes this into an R data package? ;) Cheers, Henrik On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 12:11 AM, Gergely Dar?czi <daroczig at rapporter.net> wrote:> Thank you very much, Henrik, for maintaining this list -- it's always > a pleasure to see the ever growing number of useful R packages! > > I decided a few times in the past to extend your research with the > list of archived packages, but did not actually start coding -- until > tonight: https://gist.github.com/daroczig/3cf06d6db4be2bbe3368 (this > includes the a CSV with 9K rows, so might be slow to load -- but it;s > worth waiting, as you get a searchable list of package names, dates & > index) > > In short, combining the list of current CRAN packages + the list of > archived packages results in a list with more than 9,000 R packages by > now with the following milestones (using the numbers from your > analysis): > > ## date index name > ## 1: 2016-01-12 9000 dChipIO > ## 2: 2015-06-30 8000 gkmSVM > ## 3: 2014-10-22 7000 glmvsd > ## 4: 2014-02-05 6000 bilan > ## 5: 2013-03-20 5000 Rgnuplot > ## 6: 2012-06-21 4000 HIBAG > ## 7: 2011-04-24 3000 SPECIES > ## 8: 2009-09-10 2000 maticce > ## 9: 2007-03-11 1000 cairoDevice > ## 10: 2005-02-21 500 micEcon > ## 11: 2003-03-19 250 polspline > > So including the archived packages in this report, 8K was actually > reached at the time of useR! 2015 :) > > Best, > Gergely > > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Henrik Bengtsson > <henrik.bengtsson at gmail.com> wrote: >> Another 1000 packages were added to CRAN, which took less than 7 >> months. Today (February 29, 2017), the Comprehensive R Archive Network >> (CRAN) [1] reports: >> >> ?Currently, the CRAN package repository features 8002 available packages.? >> >> The rate with which new packages are added to CRAN is increasing. In >> 2014-2015 we had 1000 packages added to CRAN in 355 days (2.8 per >> day), the following 1000 packages took 287 days (3.5 per day) and now >> the most recent 1000 packages clocked in at an impressive 201 days >> (5.0 per day). Since the start of CRAN 18.9 years ago on April 23, >> 1997 [2], there has been on average one new package appearing on CRAN >> every 20.6 hours - it is actually more frequent than that because >> dropped/archived packages are not accounted for. The 8000 packages on >> CRAN are maintained by ~4279 people [3]. >> >> Thanks to the CRAN team and to all package developers. You can give >> back by carefully reporting bugs to the maintainers, properly citing >> any packages you use in your publications, cf. citation("pkg name") >> and help out helping others using the R. >> >> Milestones: >> >> 2016-02-29: 8000 packages [this post] >> 2015-08-12: 7000 packages [11] >> 2014-10-29: 6000 packages [10] >> 2013-11-08: 5000 packages [9] >> 2012-08-23: 4000 packages [8] >> 2011-05-12: 3000 packages [7] >> 2009-10-04: 2000 packages [6] >> 2007-04-12: 1000 packages [5] >> 2004-10-01: 500 packages [4] >> 2003-04-01: 250 packages [4] >> >> These data are for CRAN only. There are many more packages elsewhere, >> e.g. R-Forge, Bioconductor, Github etc. >> >> [1] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ >> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)#Milestones >> [3] http://www.r-pkg.org/ >> [4] Private data >> [5] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2007-April/045359.html >> [6] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2009-October/055049.html >> [7] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2011-May/061002.html >> [8] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2012-August/064675.html >> [9] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2013-November/067935.html >> [10] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2014-October/069997.html >> [11] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2015q3/000393.html >> >> Thanks >> >> Henrik >> (a long-term fan) >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel