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: 3,482 × 3
#>    date       count package
#>    <date>     <int> <chr>  
#>  1 2026-03-13    87 lares  
#>  2 2026-03-13 67533 dplyr  
#>  3 2026-03-12   154 lares  
#>  4 2026-03-12 77701 dplyr  
#>  5 2026-03-11   251 lares  
#>  6 2026-03-11 73951 dplyr  
#>  7 2026-03-10   160 lares  
#>  8 2026-03-10 80921 dplyr  
#>  9 2026-03-09   247 lares  
#> 10 2026-03-09 75030 dplyr  
#> # ℹ 3,472 more rows
#> 
#> $plot

#> 
# }