Yes, because it has every version of every DESCRIPTION. Hadley
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Spencer Graves <spencer.gra...@structuremonitoring.com> wrote: > Hi, Hadley: > > > > On 4/14/2014 5:53 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote: >> >> For finer level detail, have a look at >> https://github.com/hadley/cran-packages. It contains the description >> file of every package ever uploaded to CRAN (the cache is a few months >> out of date, but you can easily re-run) > > > > Can that be mined to get the date of first commit to CRAN? Dates in > description files are sometimes updated. Example: The "Date" in the > Description file for the version of "fda" now on CRAN is 2013-05, but fda > was on CRAN at least in 2006 and probably earlier. You are listed as second > author on that package based on work you did in by 2006. > > > Spencer > > >> Hadley >> >> On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Spencer Graves >> <spencer.gra...@structuremonitoring.com> wrote: >>> >>> What data exist on the growth of CRAN? >>> >>> >>> John Fox published some data on it in 2009 ("Aspects of the Social >>> Organization and Trajectory of the R Project", R Journal, >>> http://journal.r-project.org/archive/2009-2/RJournal_2009-2_Fox.pdf). >>> Below >>> please find those numbers plus some additions of mine since. If anyone >>> else >>> has other numbers (or more accurate numbers), I'd like to know. >>> >>> >>> I plan to add a "CRANpackages" data set to the "Ecdat" package >>> with a >>> title, "Growth of CRAN" unless someone else provides better numbers or >>> title. [If it already exists on CRAN, I'd like to know. I doubt if it >>> does, >>> because I couldn't find it with findFn{sos} for 'number of CRAN packages' >>> and 'growth of CRAN'.] >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Spencer >>> >>> >>> date packages >>> 2001-06-21 110 >>> 2001-12-17 129 >>> 2002-06-12 162 >>> 2003-05-27 219 >>> 2003-11-16 273 >>> 2004-06-05 357 >>> 2004-10-12 406 >>> 2005-06-18 548 >>> 2005-12-16 647 >>> 2006-05-31 739 >>> 2006-12-12 911 >>> 2007-04-12 1000 >>> 2007-11-16 1300 >>> 2008-03-18 1427 >>> 2008-10-18 1614 >>> 2009-09-17 1952 >>> 2012-06-12 3786 >>> 2012-11-01 4082 >>> 2012-12-14 4210 >>> 2013-10-28 4960 >>> 2013-11-08 5000 >>> 2014-04-13 5428 >>> >>> >>> * NOTE: These numbers may differ slightly from other sources. Numbers >>> through 2009 were read from a plot in Fox's paper. Numbers since were >>> read >>> at an arbitrary time during the day, Pacific time, from a mirror in the >>> United States and could differ from those recorded by someone else using >>> a >>> different mirror having the same date in local time someplace else. >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >> >> >> > > > -- > Spencer Graves, PE, PhD > President and Chief Technology Officer > Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. > 751 Emerson Ct. > San José, CA 95126 > ph: 408-655-4567 > web: www.structuremonitoring.com > -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ 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.
