R Packages Crack the 3,000 Mark!
I thought that the unique function would eliminate duplicate package names. Is there a better way to count the number of packages? Thanks, Bob -----Original Message----- From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:ggrothendieck at gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 10:40 AM To: Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) Cc: r-help at r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] R Packages Crack the 3,000 Mark! Note that: - there are also 199 R packages on google code: http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:R - some (many?) of the packages on R-Forge and on google code are also on CRAN On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)
<muenchen at utk.edu> wrote:
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 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/
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