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R Packages Crack the 3,000 Mark!
7 messages · Muenchen, Robert A (Bob), Liviu Andronic, Gabor Grothendieck +2 more
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/
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/
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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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/
______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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... Best, Stephan
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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