popular R packages

This function will show which other packages depend on a particular
package:
dep <- function(pkg, AP = available.packages()) {
+    pkg <- paste("\\b", pkg, "\\b", sep = "")
+    cat("Depends:", rownames(AP)[grep(pkg, AP[, "Depends"])], "\n")
+    cat("Suggests:", rownames(AP)[grep(pkg, AP[, "Suggests"])], "\n")
+ }
dep("zoo")
Depends: AER BootPR FinTS PerformanceAnalytics RBloomberg
StreamMetabolism TSfame TShistQuote VhayuR dyn dynlm fda fxregime
lmtest meboot party quantmod sandwich sde strucchange tripEstimation
tseries xts
Suggests: TSMySQL TSPostgreSQL TSSQLite TSdbi TSodbc UsingR Zelig
gsubfn playwith pscl tframePlus
I would like to get some idea of which R-packages are popular, and what R is
used for in general. Are there any statistics available on which R packages
are downloaded often, or is there something like a package-survey? Something
similar to http://popcon.debian.org/ maybe? Any tips are welcome!

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Jeroen Ooms * Dept. of Methodology and Statistics * Utrecht University

Visit ?http://www.jeroenooms.com www.jeroenooms.com ?to explore some of my
current projects.

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