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CRANberries: Keep up-to-date with R packages

DavidMSmith
Last updated: 2009/03/25 at 4:46 PM
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There are many R packages on CRAN (1735 as of this writing). There are updates to existing packages almost every day, and new packages are added regularly. Major updates and new packages are sometimes announced on the r-packages mailing list, but not always. An easy way to keep up-to-date with this activity is to subscribe to the CRANberries RSS feed, created by Dirk Eddelbuettel. You can also view the entries directly at the CRANberries webpage. The feed (and page) includes notifications of every package added to or updated on CRAN. There are a couple of limitations. First of all, it…

There are many R packages on CRAN (1735 as of this writing).  There are updates to existing packages almost every day, and new packages are added regularly.  Major updates and new packages are sometimes announced on the r-packages mailing list, but not always.

An easy way to keep up-to-date with this activity is to subscribe to the CRANberries RSS feed, created by Dirk Eddelbuettel. You can also view the entries directly at the CRANberries webpage. The feed (and page) includes notifications of every package added to or updated on CRAN.

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There are a couple of limitations. First of all, it doesn't track packages in repositories other than CRAN (like Bioconductor). Also, it would be nice to see the details of the changes (such as the diff of the NEWS file — right now it simply reports files that have changed). Nonetheless, it's a great service and an easy add to your favourite RSS reader.

After the jump, I've included some examples of the format of typical CRANberries entries.

Here's a typical entry for an updated package:

Package plotpc updated to version 1.0-2 with previous version 1.0-1 dated 2009-03-10

Author: Stephen Milborrow
Title: Plot principal component histograms around a scatter plot.
Description: Plot principal component histograms around a bivariate
scatter plot.

Diff between plotpc versions 1.0-1 dated 2009-03-10 and 1.0-2 dated 2009-03-23

 DESCRIPTION | 23 +++++++++++++----------
NEWS | 5 +++++
R/plotld.R | 5 ++++-
man/plotld.Rd | 11 ++++++++---
man/plotpc.Rd | 21 ++++++++++++---------
tests/tests/test.plotpc.R | 3 ++-
tests/tests/test.plotpc.Rout.save | 5 +++--
7 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

More information about plotpc at CRAN

And here's a typical entry for a new package:

New package HadoopStreaming with initial version 0.1
Package: HadoopStreaming
Type: Package
Title: Utilities for using R scripts in Hadoop streaming
Version: 0.1
Date: 2009-03-16
Author: David S. Rosenberg
Maintainer: David S. Rosenberg
Depends: getopt
Description: Provides a framework for writing map/reduce scripts for
use in Hadoop Streaming. Also facilitates operating on data in
a streaming fashion, without Hadoop.
License: GPL
Packaged: Sat Mar 21 11:42:46 2009; drosen
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2009-03-23 11:09:20
More information about HadoopStreaming at CRAN

DavidMSmith March 25, 2009
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