[R] How many R packages?

Fernando Mayer fernandomayer at gmail.com
Tue Feb 12 16:23:17 CET 2008


?packageStatus gives you relevant information. Something like:

options(repos = "http://your.favorite.cran.mirror")
pS <- packageStatus()
pS

And there's also a summary method with more detailed information:

summary(pS)

HTH,
Fernando Mayer.

Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) escreveu:
> Hi All,
> 
> I searched around to find the number of R packages currently available,
> but didn't find anything, so I choose all repositories & told it to
> install. The list contained about 2,856 (correcting roughly for those
> installed). But the list includes repetitions such as 19 names that
> begin with "bvbovine".
> 
> Selecting only CRAN and CRAN(extras) I get 1,344.
> 
> Is there an easier way to determine the total number of R packages
> available?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bob
> 
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