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:landronim...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 4:47 AM To: Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] R Packages Crack the 3,000 Mark! Hello On 11/24/09, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) <muenc...@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@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.
