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: 2,866 × 3
#>    date       count package
#>    <date>     <int> <chr>  
#>  1 2025-05-03    49 lares  
#>  2 2025-05-03 35555 dplyr  
#>  3 2025-05-01    61 lares  
#>  4 2025-05-01 47149 dplyr  
#>  5 2025-04-30    89 lares  
#>  6 2025-04-30 60185 dplyr  
#>  7 2025-04-29   126 lares  
#>  8 2025-04-29 65676 dplyr  
#>  9 2025-04-28   147 lares  
#> 10 2025-04-28 73103 dplyr  
#> # ℹ 2,856 more rows
#> 
#> $plot

#> 
# }