Continuing the tradition to post millennia milestones on CRAN: So, it happened. Today (January 27, 2017 PCT) CRAN reached 10,000 packages [1].
Needless to say, the rate with which new packages are added to CRAN keeps increasing and so does the number of contributors (maintainers). Somewhere out there, there are ~3 persons who are about to submit their first packages to CRAN today and ~3 persons who will submit another package of theirs. And by the amazing work of the CRAN team, these packages are inspected and quality controlled before going live - which often happens within a day or so. As usual and it can't be said too many times: A big thank you to the CRAN team, to the R core, to all package developers, to our friendly community, to everyone out there helping others, and to various online services that simplify package development. We can all give back by carefully reporting bugs to the maintainers, properly citing packages we use in publications (see citation("pkg")), and help newcomers to use R. Milestones: 2017-01-27 10000 pkgs (+6.3/day over 158 days) 5845 mnts (+3.5/day) 2016-08-22 9000 pkgs (+5.7/day over 175 days) 5289 mnts (+5.8/day) 2016-02-29 8000 pkgs (+5.0/day over 201 days) 4279 mnts (+0.7/day) 2015-08-12 7000 pkgs (+3.4/day over 287 days) 4130 mnts (+2.4/day) 2014-10-29 6000 pkgs (+3.0/day over 335 days) 3444 mnts (+1.6/day) 2013-11-08 5000 pkgs (+2.7/day over 442 days) 2900 mnts (+1.2/day) 2012-08-23 4000 pkgs (+2.1/day over 469 days) 2350 mnts 2011-05-12 3000 pkgs (+1.7/day over 585 days) 2009-10-04 2000 pkgs (+1.1/day over 906 days) 2007-04-12 1000 pkgs 2004-10-01 500 pkgs 2003-04-01 250 pkgs 2002-09-17 68 pkgs 1997-04-23 12 pkgs These data are for CRAN only [1-13]. There are many more packages elsewhere, e.g. Bioconductor, GitHub, R-Forge 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 [12] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2016-February/072388.html [13] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2016-August/073011.html All the best, Henrik (just a user) ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel