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: 2,980 × 3
#>    date       count package
#>    <date>     <int> <chr>  
#>  1 2025-06-28    85 lares  
#>  2 2025-06-28 31935 dplyr  
#>  3 2025-06-27   249 lares  
#>  4 2025-06-27 46240 dplyr  
#>  5 2025-06-26   237 lares  
#>  6 2025-06-26 54021 dplyr  
#>  7 2025-06-25   692 lares  
#>  8 2025-06-25 50302 dplyr  
#>  9 2025-06-24   588 lares  
#> 10 2025-06-24 50015 dplyr  
#> # ℹ 2,970 more rows
#> 
#> $plot

#> 
# }