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R's bump in Q1Y14 is probably when CRAN, R's largest "official" repo archive pushed all of its packages to Github. Pretty neat to see the volume right there.
by RA_Fisher 12y ago
R's bump in Q1Y14 is probably when CRAN, R's largest "official" repo archive pushed all of its packages to Github. Pretty neat to see the volume right there.
- bhouston 12y agoSort of disconcerting that R is somewhat flat in terms of its growth though.
- weavie 12y agoI would imagine that this is because R is a language that is more used for a specific purpose rather than a language that is developed.
- hadley 12y agoI think there's steady growth in active R repos that's masked by the huge impact of Hopkin's Coursera course on reproducible research. Tens of thousands of people fork a repo for a homework (https://github.com/search?q=forks%3A%3E30000&type=Repositories https://github.com/search?q=forks%3A%3E30000&type=Repositori...), and then never touch it again
- Mikeb85 12y agoPart of that is the fact that many R packages are actually predominantly written in C++, C, Java, etc..., so they show up in Github searches as being written in a language other than R...
- hadley 12y agoFWIW that's not an official move by CRAN, it's just an interested individual mirroring all CRAN packages