Check how many downloads a CRAN package has?

Question

How can I get simple download metrics for an R package on CRAN?

I recently released my own package on CRAN and I want to monitor it a bit.

Bangkok

Have a look here: nicebread.de/finally-tracking-cran-packages-downloads – Acton

@Acton Thanks. I saw that post but it seems like excessive work just to get package download counts. That's why I ended up here. – Bangkok

Here's a full list of CRAN packages and the number of downloads – Epistrophe

hadley.shinyapps.io/cran-downloads – Pride

Answer 1

http://cranlogs.r-pkg.org offers a variety of ways to access counts of the number of times a package has been downloaded (not installed) from the RStudio CRAN mirror (only), including an API for generating badges automatically and an R package.

For the mltools package:

Downloads in last month (https://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/badges/last-month/mltools)

Downloads in last week (https://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/badges/last-week/mltools)

Downloads in last day (https://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/badges/last-day/mltools)

Grand total (https://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/badges/grand-total/mltools)

Passifloraceous

Answer 2

To get metrics of the number of package downloads (not installations) you could also use the following packages:

• dlstats
• cranlogs and
• adjustedcranlogs

Gannie

Answer 3

You can check the number of downloads a CRAN package has here:

http://www.datasciencemeta.com/rpackages

Epistrophe