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: 3,880 × 3
#>    date       count package
#>    <date>     <int> <chr>  
#>  1 2026-09-28    93 lares  
#>  2 2026-09-28 70847 dplyr  
#>  3 2026-09-27    59 lares  
#>  4 2026-09-27 41224 dplyr  
#>  5 2026-09-26    57 lares  
#>  6 2026-09-26 39316 dplyr  
#>  7 2026-09-25   145 lares  
#>  8 2026-09-25 69812 dplyr  
#>  9 2026-09-24   173 lares  
#> 10 2026-09-24 70134 dplyr  
#> # ℹ 3,870 more rows
#> 
#> $plot

#> 
# }