Produces a tibble or a visualization of package download statistics.
Usage
cran_downloads(
pkgs = "all",
output = "tibble",
sum = "by_month",
plot.scale = 11,
use.cache = TRUE
)Arguments
- pkgs
Package name(s). Default is "all", which prints statistics for all rOpenGov packages. You can also input 1 or more package names as a vector.
- output
"tibble" (default) or "plot". With sum "by_month" and "by_year" "plot" outputs a line chart, with "total" it outputs a bar chart.
- sum
"by_month" (default), "by_year" or "total"
- plot.scale
integer, default is 11. Smaller numbers decrease the size of plot elements, larger numbers make them larger.
- use.cache
Cache downloaded statistics. Default is TRUE
Details
This function is intended for easy retrieval and visualization of rOpenGov package download statistics from CRAN. It is an evolution of an R script by antagomir. As such it retains some features that were present in the original R script and were deemed useful for rOpenGov's internal use. This function may or may not be useful in other instances.
Examples
if (FALSE) {
df <- cran_downloads(pkgs = "eurostat", sum = "total", use.cache = FALSE)
kable(df)
## Compare two packages
p1 <- cran_downloads(pkgs = "eurostat", sum = "by_year", output = "plot")
p2 <- cran_downloads(pkgs = "osmar", sum = "by_year", output = "plot")
gridExtra::grid.arrange(p1, p2, nrow = 2)
}