1 CRAN growth
In the past 3 months, 528 new packages were added to the CRAN package repository. 142 packages were unarchived, 274 were archived and 0 had to be removed. The following shows the growth of the number of active packages in the CRAN package repository:
On 2025-03-31, the number of active packages was around 22253.
2 CRAN package submissions
From January 2025 to March 2025 CRAN received 7690 package submissions. For these, 12213 actions took place of which 9271 (76%) were auto processed actions and 2942 (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 | 2798 | 623 | 1622 | 152 | 0 | 2401 | 931 | 356 |
| manual | 1171 | 4 | 13 | 6 | 60 | 1307 | 276 | 98 |
These include the final decisions for the submissions which were
| archive | publish | |
|---|---|---|
| auto | 2672 (35.5%) | 2179 (28.9%) |
| manual | 1157 (15.4%) | 1522 (20.2%) |
where we only count those as auto processed whose publication or rejection happened automatically in all steps.
3 CRAN mirror security
Currently, there are 93 official CRAN mirrors,
77 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 are two new task views:
- Compositional Data Analysis: Maintained by Karel Hron, Javier Palarea-Albaladejo, Matthias Templ, Alessandra Menafoglio.
- Network Analysis: Maintained by Fabio Ashtar Telarico, Pavel N. Krivitsky, James Hollway.
Currently there are 48 task views (see https://CRAN.R-project.org/web/views/), with median and mean numbers of CRAN packages covered 108 and 122, respectively. Overall, these task views cover 4906 CRAN packages, which is about 22% of all active CRAN packages.