R Packages Crack the 3,000 Mark!

Hi Liviu,

Yes, I selected all the repositories on the list, including things like CRAN (extras), the four Bioconductor (BioC) sites, and R-Forge. 

Cheers,
Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Liviu Andronic [mailto:landronimirc at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 4:47 AM
To: Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] R Packages Crack the 3,000 Mark!

Hello

 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/