In the past 4 months, 664 new packages were added to the CRAN package repository. 154 packages were unarchived, 353 were archived and 6 had to be removed. The following shows the growth of the number of active packages in the CRAN package repository:
On 2022-10-31, the number of active packages was around 18730.
CRAN package submissions
From September 2022 to October 2022 CRAN received 5227 package submissions. For these, 9429 actions took place of which 6070 (64%) were auto processed actions and 3359 (36%) manual actions.
Minus some special cases, a summary of the auto-processed and manually triggered actions follows:
| archive | inspect | newbies | pending | pretest | publish | recheck | waiting | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| auto | 1335 | 1211 | 926 | 0 | 0 | 1560 | 513 | 525 |
| manual | 1250 | 35 | 325 | 232 | 39 | 1054 | 353 | 71 |
These include the final decisions for the submissions which were
| archive | publish | |
|---|---|---|
| auto | 1283 (25.1%) | 1239 (24.3%) |
| manual | 1222 (23.9%) | 1361 (26.7%) |
where we only count those as auto processed whose publication or rejection happened automatically in all steps.
CRAN mirror security
Currently, there are 100 official CRAN mirrors, 81 of which provide both
secure downloads via https and use secure mirroring from the CRAN
master (via rsync through ssh tunnels). Since the R 3.4.0 release,
chooseCRANmirror() offers these mirrors in preference to the others
which are not fully secured (yet).
CRAN Task View Initiative
There are three new task views:
- Agricultural Science
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Maintained by Julia Piaskowski, Adam Sparks, and Janet Williams.
- Mixed, Multilevel, and Hierarchical Models in R
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Maintained by Ben Bolker, Julia Piaskowski, Emi Tanaka, Phillip Alday, and Wolfgang Viechtbauer.
- Phylogenetics
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Maintained by William Gearty, Brian O’Meara, Jacob Berv, Gustavo A. Ballen, Diniz Ferreira, Hilmar Lapp, Lars Schmitz, Martin R. Smith, Nathan S. Upham, and Jonathan A. Nations.
Currently there are 42 task views (see https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/), with median and mean numbers of CRAN packages covered 102 and 115, respectively. Overall, these task views cover 4015 CRAN packages, which is about 21% of all active CRAN packages.
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