Names of R's available packages
问题 I'm eager to know, how many package names on CRAN have two, three, N characters? which combinations have not yet been used ("unpoppler") how many package names use full-caps, or camelCase? how many package names end in 2? I think it might reveal some interesting facts. Edit: bonus points for animated graphics showing the time-evolution of CRAN packages. 回答1: A better way than scraping a web page to get the names of packages is to use the available.packages() function and process those results