Message-ID: <4B0E33DD.60903@biostat.ku.dk>
Date: 2009-11-26T07:53:01Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: R Packages Crack the 3,000 Mark!
In-Reply-To: <4B0DA965.8050702@gmx.de>
Stephan Kolassa wrote:
> 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...
I believe he looked inside tests/internet.Rout.save
This has
> nrow(available.packages(contrib.url("http://cran.r-project.org")))
[1] 2008
and gets updated at each release.
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