Re: [Rd] Milestone: 8000 packages on CRAN

2016-03-01 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Thank you Gergely - great work. So on planet CRAN with have a large living population of packages and some deceased packages of the past ... and then there are packages that reincarnate one or more times. I wonder how long it will be before someone makes this into an R data package? ;) Cheers,

Re: [Rd] Milestone: 8000 packages on CRAN

2016-03-01 Thread Gergely Daróczi
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:

[Rd] Milestone: 8000 packages on CRAN

2016-02-29 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
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.