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: 3,002 × 3
#>    date       count package
#>    <date>     <int> <chr>  
#>  1 2025-07-09   128 lares  
#>  2 2025-07-09 49445 dplyr  
#>  3 2025-07-08   187 lares  
#>  4 2025-07-08 49596 dplyr  
#>  5 2025-07-07   152 lares  
#>  6 2025-07-07 47771 dplyr  
#>  7 2025-07-06    62 lares  
#>  8 2025-07-06 28552 dplyr  
#>  9 2025-07-05   112 lares  
#> 10 2025-07-05 27036 dplyr  
#> # ℹ 2,992 more rows
#> 
#> $plot

#> 
# }