1 CRAN growth
In the past 3 months, 504 new packages were added to the CRAN package repository. 104 packages were unarchived, 173 were archived and 1 had to be removed. The following shows the growth of the number of active packages in the CRAN package repository:
On 2024-12-31, the number of active packages was around 21860.
2 CRAN package submissions
From oktober 2024 to december 2024 CRAN received 6179 package submissions. For these, 9795 actions took place of which 7408 (76%) were auto processed actions and 2387 (24%) 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 | 2129 | 490 | 1403 | 96 | 0 | 1991 | 668 | 290 |
| manual | 986 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 27 | 1072 | 226 | 58 |
These include the final decisions for the submissions which were
| archive | publish | |
|---|---|---|
| auto | 2056 (33.7%) | 1805 (29.6%) |
| manual | 982 (16.1%) | 1254 (20.6%) |
where we only count those as auto processed whose publication or rejection happened automatically in all steps.
3 CRAN mirror security
Currently, there are 94 official CRAN mirrors,
73 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).
4 CRAN Task View Initiative
There is one new task view:
- Paleontology: Maintained by William Gearty, Lewis A. Jones, Erin Dillon, Pedro Godoy, Harriet Drage, Christopher Dean, Bruna Farina.
Currently there are 48 task views (see https://CRAN.R-project.org/web/views/), with median and mean numbers of CRAN packages covered 110 and 121, respectively. Overall, these task views cover 4885 CRAN packages, which is about 22% of all active CRAN packages.