An Empirical Analysis of the R Package Ecosystem

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In this research, we present a comprehensive, longitudinal empirical summary of the R package ecosystem, including not just CRAN, but also Bioconductor and GitHub. We analyze more than 25,000 packages, 150,000 releases, 15 million files across two decades, providing comprehensive counts trends for common metrics authors, licenses, other important metadata. find that historical growth ecosystem has been robust under all measures, with compound annual rate 29% active 28% new 26% maintainers. As many similar social systems, number highly right-skewed distributions practical implications, distribution releases per package, packages author or maintainer, maintainer dependency in-degree, size release. For example, top five are imported by nearly 25% ten maintainers support over half packages. highlight dynamic nature recording both dramatic acceleration notable deceleration in R. From licensing perspective, majority distributed copyleft omit information entirely. The data, methods, calculations herein provide an anchor public discourse industry decisions related to serving as foundation future research on software data science broadly.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Social Science Research Network

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['1556-5068']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3788978