Earlier today I sent
an
announcement to the r-packages list. It describes
CRANberries, two simple RSS feeds
that summarize both 'new' and 'updated' packages at
CRAN, the archive network for
R.
I cooked this up rather quickly using a few lines of
R, a small
SQLite db backend and the old
Blosxom blog engine.
A tip of the hat to Barry Rowlingson who
almost
immediately suggested to use
the
lol format instead.
The hope is that this proves helpful for keeping tabs on the amazing growth
of CRAN (which is now at over one
thousand packages) as well as the number of updates to existing packages.
The feed(s) can be consumed standalone, or via the brand new Planet R aggregator that Elijah announced
today too.
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