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This may not be the appropriate place for this question as this site is more of a coding site but this also seems the most appropriate place for the question compared to the alternatives.

Is there a way to determine how many times an R package has been downloaded or some other means of assessing a package's popularity?

I apologize in advance if this is not the most appropriate place for this question. If you have a better suggestion please direct me there.

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    It has been asked and NOT answered several times on rhelp. – IRTFM Apr 15 '12 at 03:29
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    http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/RFC-for-package-PopCon-a-popularity-contest-for-R-and-packages-td918778.html ; http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/popular-R-packages-td883609.html ; and certainly more (that was a google search on "r-devel package popularity" – Ben Bolker Apr 15 '12 at 03:35
  • Thanks Ben and DWin. The short answer appears to be no. Too bad. Thank you for the direction guys. – Tyler Rinker Apr 15 '12 at 03:50
  • (-1) For being a raptor. – Dason Apr 15 '12 at 04:43
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    I think Hadley W has a google summer of code project to work on some infrastructure for the mirror sites to do this. – Spacedman Apr 15 '12 at 09:13
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    For the most discussed packages (a slightly different notion), you can count the number of occurrences of "library(foo)" (in code samples), for each package, on R-help or here. You can also see how it changes with time (it usually rises as the package becomes popular, but drops as it becomes more mainstream, probably because everyone knows how to use it). – Vincent Zoonekynd Apr 15 '12 at 10:52
  • https://www.r-bloggers.com/finally-tracking-cran-packages-downloads/ this link have the answer for your question – Siddhu Dec 20 '16 at 06:06

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