Hi All, I don't know if this has been reported before, but according to Henrique Dallazuanna's program (below) the number of R packages has exceeded the 3,000 mark. The count today is 3,175. I ran this just a couple of months ago & the number was still in the high 2,000s, so it must be fairly recent. I think this represents about 50% growth in the last year. Not bad! Does anyone have a program that graphs the growth of R packages? I don't know if that historical data is around. Cheers, Bob http://RforSASandSPSSusers.com Henrique's program:> setRepositories()> myPackageNames <- available.packages()--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- [I selected them all]> length(unique( rownames(myPackageNames) ))[1] 3175 [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Hello On 11/24/09, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) <muenchen at utk.edu> wrote:> I don't know if this has been reported before, but according to Henrique > Dallazuanna's program (below) the number of R packages has exceeded the > 3,000 mark. The count today is 3,175. I ran this just a couple of months > ago & the number was still in the high 2,000s, so it must be fairly > recent. I think this represents about 50% growth in the last year. Not > bad! >Performing the same here I get only 2000+ packages.> myPackageNames <- available.packages()--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done> length(unique( rownames(myPackageNames) ))[1] 2058 And CRAN [1] reports a similar number. Perhaps you have some non-standard repositories configured? Liviu [1] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/
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... Best, Stephan