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: 3,600 × 3
#>    date       count package
#>    <date>     <int> <chr>  
#>  1 2026-05-11   134 lares  
#>  2 2026-05-11 73589 dplyr  
#>  3 2026-05-10    52 lares  
#>  4 2026-05-10 40753 dplyr  
#>  5 2026-05-09    42 lares  
#>  6 2026-05-09 42372 dplyr  
#>  7 2026-05-08   141 lares  
#>  8 2026-05-08 65154 dplyr  
#>  9 2026-05-07   116 lares  
#> 10 2026-05-07 76273 dplyr  
#> # ℹ 3,590 more rows
#> 
#> $plot

#> 
# }