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: 3,372 × 3
#>    date       count package
#>    <date>     <int> <chr>  
#>  1 2026-01-17   112 lares  
#>  2 2026-01-17 31850 dplyr  
#>  3 2026-01-16   222 lares  
#>  4 2026-01-16 64284 dplyr  
#>  5 2026-01-15   163 lares  
#>  6 2026-01-15 63255 dplyr  
#>  7 2026-01-14   223 lares  
#>  8 2026-01-14 64065 dplyr  
#>  9 2026-01-13   155 lares  
#> 10 2026-01-13 96397 dplyr  
#> # ℹ 3,362 more rows
#> 
#> $plot

#> 
# }