Dear All, I have put together a simple web service that notifies you about new and updated R packages and/or if CRAN package checks fail for your packages. It is all done via RSS feeds and there is a short description at http://cranky.igraph.org The feeds are dynamically created, so you don't have to subscribe for updates and checks about all packages, but you can follow a single package, packages by a given author or maintainer, the (reverse) dependencies of a package, etc. You can even get a feed with packages whose description contains a keyword. Here are some simple examples: All packages: http://cranky.igraph.org/feed/news Packages that depend on the ggplot2 package: http://cranky.igraph.org/feed/news/uses/ggplot2 Packages 'ggplot2' depends on: http://cranky.igraph.org/feed/news/usedby/ggplot2 Packages by a single person: http://cranky.igraph.org/feed/news/author/youknowitall Packages that contain 'network' in the description field: http://cranky.igraph.org/feed/news/description/network All package checks: http://cranky.igraph.org/feed/checks All packages checks for ggplot2 dependencies: http://cranky.igraph.org/feed/checks/usedby/ggplot2 I have created this for my own needs, and have been using it for a couple of weeks now. I thought it might be useful for others as well. It could be a lot more flexible, e.g. a complex search feature would be great, but I think it is already useful as it is. Note that this is independent of CRAN and the R website, so please don't bother R-core or CRAN maintainers about possible bugs or questions. Contant me directly instead or report a bug on github, see http://cranky.igraph.org. Best, Gabor [[alternative HTML version deleted]]