R Package Downloads

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R Package Downloads

Using the following snippet of code in R, after installing the ggplot and dlstats libraries, one can plot how often a given set of packages has been downloaded.

Install

install.packages("ggplot2")
install.packages("dlstats")

Use

library(ggplot2)
library(dlstats)
# Here I use my packages as an example, you can check any packages on CRAN
x <- cran_stats(c("BigQuic", "DCD", "DiffNet", "AssocAFC", "famSKATRC", "RGBM"))
ggplot(x, aes(end, downloads, group=package, color=package)) +
  geom_line() + geom_point(aes(shape=package)) + 
  xlab("Time") + ylab("Downloads")

png(width = 600, height = 400)
ggsave(filename = "R_Package_Downloads.png", device = "png")
dev.off()
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