Thread by @_ColinFay

#RStats — What's up CRAN?

In the past 7 months:

🆕 1178 new 📦

🆓 18 unarchived 📦

⏹ 493 archived 📦

At the end of June, there were around 12500 📦 on the CRAN

Changes on CRAN check ✅

See stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/Rblas/… for more info

The automated part of submission pipeline has also been extended.

After that, auto check and eventually CRAN members undertake one of these actions in the package:

🗂 archive
🔍 inspect
⏳ pending
🔦 pretest
♻️ recheck

Also, some news about CRAN policy :

As of today, a full CRAN archive takes around 176G

66/100 CRAN mirrors use https

And finally, some newcomers to CRAN task views :
cran.r-project.org/web/views/

Source : journal.r-project.org/archive/2018-1…