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  comment = "#>",
  tidy = FALSE,
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Download logs from the RStudio CRAN mirror

RStudio publishes the download logs from their CRAN package mirror daily at http://cran-logs.rstudio.com.

This R package queries a database that contains the daily download numbers for each package.

Installation

You can install cranlogs from Github:

library(devtools)
install_github("metacran/cranlogs")

It has a very simple API. By default it shows the total number of package downloads from the previous day.

library(cranlogs)
cran_downloads()

The last week, or the last month can be also easily queried:

cran_downloads(when = "last-week")

The package argument queries a specific package:

cran_downloads(when = "last-week", package = c("magrittr", "dplyr"))

Alternative intervals can also be specified:

cran_downloads(package = "plyr", from = "2014-01-01", to = "2014-02-01")

For downloads of R itself, give "R" instead of a package:

cran_downloads("R")

Last day:

cran_top_downloads()

Last week:

cran_top_downloads("last-week")

See here.