Thank you very much, Henrik, for maintaining this list -- it's always a pleasure to see the ever growing number of useful R packages!
I decided a few times in the past to extend your research with the list of archived packages, but did not actually start coding -- until tonight: https://gist.github.com/daroczig/3cf06d6db4be2bbe3368 (this includes the a CSV with 9K rows, so might be slow to load -- but it;s worth waiting, as you get a searchable list of package names, dates & index) In short, combining the list of current CRAN packages + the list of archived packages results in a list with more than 9,000 R packages by now with the following milestones (using the numbers from your analysis): ## date index name ## 1: 2016-01-12 9000 dChipIO ## 2: 2015-06-30 8000 gkmSVM ## 3: 2014-10-22 7000 glmvsd ## 4: 2014-02-05 6000 bilan ## 5: 2013-03-20 5000 Rgnuplot ## 6: 2012-06-21 4000 HIBAG ## 7: 2011-04-24 3000 SPECIES ## 8: 2009-09-10 2000 maticce ## 9: 2007-03-11 1000 cairoDevice ## 10: 2005-02-21 500 micEcon ## 11: 2003-03-19 250 polspline So including the archived packages in this report, 8K was actually reached at the time of useR! 2015 :) Best, Gergely On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengts...@gmail.com> wrote: > Another 1000 packages were added to CRAN, which took less than 7 > months. Today (February 29, 2017), the Comprehensive R Archive Network > (CRAN) [1] reports: > > “Currently, the CRAN package repository features 8002 available packages.” > > The rate with which new packages are added to CRAN is increasing. In > 2014-2015 we had 1000 packages added to CRAN in 355 days (2.8 per > day), the following 1000 packages took 287 days (3.5 per day) and now > the most recent 1000 packages clocked in at an impressive 201 days > (5.0 per day). Since the start of CRAN 18.9 years ago on April 23, > 1997 [2], there has been on average one new package appearing on CRAN > every 20.6 hours - it is actually more frequent than that because > dropped/archived packages are not accounted for. The 8000 packages on > CRAN are maintained by ~4279 people [3]. > > Thanks to the CRAN team and to all package developers. You can give > back by carefully reporting bugs to the maintainers, properly citing > any packages you use in your publications, cf. citation("pkg name") > and help out helping others using the R. > > Milestones: > > 2016-02-29: 8000 packages [this post] > 2015-08-12: 7000 packages [11] > 2014-10-29: 6000 packages [10] > 2013-11-08: 5000 packages [9] > 2012-08-23: 4000 packages [8] > 2011-05-12: 3000 packages [7] > 2009-10-04: 2000 packages [6] > 2007-04-12: 1000 packages [5] > 2004-10-01: 500 packages [4] > 2003-04-01: 250 packages [4] > > These data are for CRAN only. There are many more packages elsewhere, > e.g. R-Forge, Bioconductor, Github etc. > > [1] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)#Milestones > [3] http://www.r-pkg.org/ > [4] Private data > [5] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2007-April/045359.html > [6] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2009-October/055049.html > [7] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2011-May/061002.html > [8] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2012-August/064675.html > [9] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2013-November/067935.html > [10] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2014-October/069997.html > [11] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2015q3/000393.html > > Thanks > > Henrik > (a long-term fan) > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel