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: 3,224 × 3
#>    date       count package
#>    <date>     <int> <chr>  
#>  1 2025-11-04   391 lares  
#>  2 2025-11-04 75188 dplyr  
#>  3 2025-11-03   338 lares  
#>  4 2025-11-03 72633 dplyr  
#>  5 2025-11-02    53 lares  
#>  6 2025-11-02 46135 dplyr  
#>  7 2025-11-01    91 lares  
#>  8 2025-11-01 41996 dplyr  
#>  9 2025-10-31   165 lares  
#> 10 2025-10-31 60029 dplyr  
#> # ℹ 3,214 more rows
#> 
#> $plot

#> 
# }