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: 3,114 × 3
#>    date       count package
#>    <date>     <int> <chr>  
#>  1 2025-09-10   504 lares  
#>  2 2025-09-10 73019 dplyr  
#>  3 2025-09-09   410 lares  
#>  4 2025-09-09 84709 dplyr  
#>  5 2025-09-08   435 lares  
#>  6 2025-09-08 72245 dplyr  
#>  7 2025-09-07    96 lares  
#>  8 2025-09-07 39942 dplyr  
#>  9 2025-09-06   264 lares  
#> 10 2025-09-06 39202 dplyr  
#> # ℹ 3,104 more rows
#> 
#> $plot

#> 
# }