Here we go again... Today (2011-11-08) on The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) [1]:
"Currently, the CRAN package repository features 5001 available packages." Going from 4000 to 5000 packages took 14.5 months - that's one new package every 10.5 hours. Behind every package there are real people. These user-contributed packages are maintained by ~2900 people [2] - that's 350 new maintainers and many more contributors. More people to thank than ever before - don't forget about them, e.g. cite properly when publishing. Milestones: 2013-11-08: 5000 packages [this post] 2012-08-23: 4000 packages [7] 2011-05-12: 3000 packages [6] 2009-10-04: 2000 packages [5] 2007-04-12: 1000 packages [4] 2004-10-01: 500 packages [3,4] 2003-04-01: 250 packages [3,4] [1] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ [2] http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_summary_by_maintainer.html [3] Private data. [4] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2007-April/045359.html [5] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2009-October/055049.html [6] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2011-May/061002.html [7] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2012-August/064675.html /Henrik PS. These data are for CRAN only. There are more packages elsewhere, e.g. R-Forge, Bioconductor, Github etc. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
