CRAN

New rtweet release: 2.0.0

This is a brief announcement of rtweet version 2.0.0. This major version changes signals the move from the API v1.1 to the API v2. There haven’t been many changes since 1.

Submissions accepted on the first try

First time successful submissions

Packaging R: repositories

In this post I want to collect some thoughts about R repositories. In R we have multiple repositories that store packages for users. In this post I want to write about the purpose, functionality, benefits and drawbacks of R repositories and how packages are managed.

CRAN maintained packages

Some analysis on the RCurl and XML dependencies.

Los paquetes van a CRAN

A short presentation in Spanish about submitting a package to CRAN and maintain it.

Exploring CRAN's files: part 2

Introduction In the first post of the series we briefly explored packages available on CRAN. Now I’ll focus on history of the packages and its size using the following files:

Exploring CRAN's files: part 1

Exploration of the CRAN archive: First part about packages published on CRAN

Reasons why packages are archived on CRAN

Most frequent reason is due to the package not fixed on time, followed by depending on packages archived and policy violation.

Packages submission and reviews; how does it work?

Description of the submission process to CRAN

CRAN review

I’ve been doing some analysis on the review submissions of several projects of R. However, till recently I couldn’t analyze the CRAN submission. There was cransays’ package to check package submissions which on the online documentation provided a dashboard which updated each hour.