Martin Mächler mmaechler

Adjunct Professor @ SfS, ETH Zurich. R (#rstats) Core group member Follower of the Alpha and Omega

mmaechler / get-data.R

Created July 8, 2016 19:19 — forked from daroczig/get-data.R

Number of R packages submitted to CRAN

	## original idea & report by Henrik Bengtsson at
	## https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2016-February/072388.html

	## This script downloads the list of currently published R packages
	## from CRAN and also looks at all the archived package versions to
	## combine these into a list of all R packages ever published on
	## CRAN with the date of first release.

	## CRAN mirror to use
	CRAN_page <- function(...) {