Message-ID: <68b1e2610911250147m3ba1a4fay5ac99fec877a9425@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2009-11-25T09:47:23Z
From: Liviu Andronic
Subject: R Packages Crack the 3,000 Mark!
In-Reply-To: <8C5F8DF18B90FA43BB9B356227F812D501360EF3@KFSVS6.utk.tennessee.edu>
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/