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Changes on CRAN
2021-01-01 to 2021-06-30
by Kurt Hornik, Uwe Ligges and Achim Zeileis
In the past 6 months, 1290 new packages were added to the CRAN package repository. 116
packages were unarchived and 467 were archived. The following shows the growth of thenumber of active packages in the CRAN package repository:
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On 2021-06-30, the number of active packages was around 17778.
CRAN package submissions
During the the last three quarters (September 2020 to June 2021), CRAN received 25426
package submissions. For these, 44844 actions took place of which 29039 (65%) were auto
processed actions and 15805 (35%) manual actions.
Minus some special cases, a summary of the auto-processed and manually triggered
actions follows:automanualarchive
6191
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inspect
5988
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newbies5585
874

pending0855

pretest0249

publish7244
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recheck
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waiting
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These include the final decisions for the submissions which wereaction
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manualarchive5573 (22.5%)6478 (26.2%)

publish6131 (24.8%)6544 (26.5%)

where we only count those as auto processed whose publication or rejection happened
automatically in all steps.

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CRAN mirror security
Currently, there are 103 official CRAN mirrors, 82 of which provide both secure downloads
via ‘https’ and use secure mirroring from the CRAN master (via rsync through ssh tunnels).
Since the R 3.4.0 release, chooseCRANmirror() offers these mirrors in preference to the others
which are not fully secured (yet).
New packages in CRAN task views
Bayesian causact, dina, edina, errum, greta, mcmcensemble, rrum, shinybrms.
ClinicalTrials DTAT, Keyboard, MinEDfind, PowerUpR, UnifiedDoseFinding, cosa, crmPack, presize, randomizeR, replicateBE, rpact, simglm.
Cluster mdendro, mixR.
DifferentialEquations RxODE, mrgsolve, nlmixr.
Econometrics collapse, ivreg, lfe.
Finance AssetCorr, LSMRealOptions, NFCP, frenchdata, garchmodels.
FunctionalData face, mfaces, sparseFLMM.
HighPerformanceComputing proffer, profile, profmem, targets.
Hydrology AWAPer, HydroMe, LWFBrook90R, MODIStsp, airGRdatassim, synthesis,telemac.
MachineLearning DoubleML, lightgbm∗ , mlpack, splitTools.
MetaAnalysis CoTiMA, DTAplots, EvidenceSynthesis, MetaIntegration, RoBMA, RobustBayesianCopas, bnma, boutliers, forplo, fsn, gmeta, metaSurvival, metamicrobiomeR, metapack, nmaplateplot, smd.
MissingData InformativeCensoring, NADIA, dejaVu, grf, idem, lqr, misaem, missRanger, mixture, norm2, samon, semTools.
NumericalMathematics sanic.
OfficialStatistics collapse, longCatEDA, sdcMicro, simPop.
Optimization QPmin, SPOT, psqn, rminizinc, rmoo.
Psychometrics ata, tidyLPA.
ReproducibleResearch knitcitations, reportfactory, targets.
Robust clubSandwich, clusterSEs, skewlmm.
Spatial GWmodel, RCzechia, chilemapas, dbmss, geobr, geouy, giscoR, ipdw, mapSpain,
osmextract, rgee, rgugik, terra.
Survival Cyclops, DAAG, InformativeCensoring, LTRCtrees, LogicReg, SGL, SimSurvNMarker, YPmodel, asbio, bayesSurv, bujar, concreg, etm, frailtyHL, frailtySurv,frailtypack, joineRML, kmc, kmi, mets, mlr3proba, npsurv, plsRcox, reReg, rstanarm, simPH, smoothSurv, spef, superpc, tranSurv.
TimeSeries HDTSA, LSTS, Rcatch22, Rsfar, VARDetect, autostsm, bayesforecast, blocklength, clock, collapse, dynr, fpcb, gsignal, legion, mfbvar, strucchangeRcpp, tensorTS, tsrobprep.
WebTechnologies AzureCosmosR, AzureGraph, AzureKusto, AzureQstor, AzureTableStor, AzureVision, Microsoft365R.

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Kurt Hornik
WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Austria
Kurt.Hornik@R-project.org
Uwe Ligges
TU Dortmund, Germany
Uwe.Ligges@R-project.org
Achim Zeileis
Universität Innsbruck, Austria
Achim.Zeileis@R-project.org

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