Download and plot daily downloads of CRAN packages

Download daily downloads stats from CRAN for any package, and plot. It can also be used as an auxiliary function to plot (cranlogs::cran_downloads) results.

Usage

cran_logs(
  input = "lares",
  from = Sys.Date() - 31,
  to = Sys.Date() - 1,
  type = "daily",
  plot = TRUE
)

Arguments

input

Character vector with package names or data.frame product of cranlogs::cran_downloads.

from, to

Dates. Range of dates to fetch downloads metrics.

type

Character. Any of: "daily" or "total".

plot

Boolean. Create a plot?

Value

List with data.frame and plot if plot=TRUE.

Examples

# \donttest{
cran_logs(c("lares", "dplyr"), from = "2021-05-31")
#> $df
#> # A tibble: 3,132 × 3
#>    date       count package
#>    <date>     <int> <chr>  
#>  1 2025-09-19   275 lares  
#>  2 2025-09-19 61844 dplyr  
#>  3 2025-09-18   291 lares  
#>  4 2025-09-18 70537 dplyr  
#>  5 2025-09-17   227 lares  
#>  6 2025-09-17 81350 dplyr  
#>  7 2025-09-16   288 lares  
#>  8 2025-09-16 71348 dplyr  
#>  9 2025-09-15   232 lares  
#> 10 2025-09-15 69060 dplyr  
#> # ℹ 3,122 more rows
#> 
#> $plot

#> 
# }