In that case, I will try to see if the public databases have the kind
of data sets I am trying to package and run the idea by the team that
is assigned to the project I am developing. Thank you Martin, Sean
and Kasper for your valuable insight!
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Nicolas De Jay
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:07 AM,
Dear R-Devels,
I installed on my Mac OS X 10.9 system several R-3.0.2 versions, differing by
the compiler used to build R. I can load them via my environment-modules.
Now, what I want to have is for each version an own working directory such that
.RData and .Rhistory are not loaded from a
Package 'quint' brought the number of packages on CRAN (for all
platforms: some are Windows-only or non-Windows only) to 5000 a few
minutes ago: see http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/index.html .
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Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,
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
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
CRAN size has grown almost exponentially at least since 2001. R
history was discussed by John Fox (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 his data plus 5
