rcheology

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A data package which lists every command in base R packages since R version 1.0.1.

The latest R version covered is 4.0.2.

You can view the data online in a Shiny app.

Installing

From CRAN:

install.packages('rcheology')

Where the data comes from

Versions 4.0.0 and up are installed from the CRAN apt repositories for Ubuntu Bionic.

Versions 3.0.1 to 3.6.3 are installed from the CRAN apt repositories for Ubuntu Trusty Tahr. Version 3.5.0 and up use a special repository.

Versions 2.5.1 to 3.0.0 are built from source on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx.

Versions 1.2.3 to 2.4.1 are mostly built from source on Debian Sarge.

Versions 1.0.1 to 1.2.2 (and a couple of later versions) are built from source on Debian Woody.

Results are found from running ls on all installed packages from a minimal installation. Recommended packages are not included.

The Rversions data frame lists versions of R and release dates.

Do it yourself

The data

library(rcheology)
data("rcheology")

head(rcheology)
#>   package name Rversion    type exported class generic args
#> 1    base    -    1.0.1 builtin     TRUE  <NA>      NA <NA>
#> 2    base    -    1.1.0 builtin     TRUE  <NA>      NA <NA>
#> 3    base    -    1.1.1 builtin     TRUE  <NA>      NA <NA>
#> 4    base    -    1.2.0 builtin     TRUE  <NA>      NA <NA>
#> 5    base    -    1.2.1 builtin     TRUE  <NA>      NA <NA>
#> 6    base    -    1.2.2 builtin     TRUE  <NA>      NA <NA>

Latest changes:


suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(dplyr))

r_penultimate <- sort(package_version(unique(rcheology::rcheology$Rversion)), 
      decreasing = TRUE)
r_penultimate <- r_penultimate[2]

r_latest_obj <- rcheology %>% filter(Rversion == r_latest)
r_penult_obj <- rcheology %>% filter(Rversion == r_penultimate)

r_introduced <- anti_join(r_latest_obj, r_penult_obj, by = c("package", "name"))

r_introduced
#> [1] package  name     Rversion type     exported class    generic  args    
#> <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)

Base functions over time:

library(ggplot2)

rvs <- rcheology$Rversion     %>% 
      unique()                %>% 
      as.package_version()    %>% 
      sort() %>% 
      as.character()

major_rvs <- grep(".0$", rvs, value = TRUE)
major_rv_dates <- Rversions$date[Rversions$Rversion %in% major_rvs]
major_rvs <- gsub("\\.0$", "", major_rvs)

rch_dates <- rcheology %>% left_join(Rversions, by = "Rversion")
ggplot(rch_dates, aes(date, group = package, fill = package), colour = NA) + 
      stat_count(geom = "area") + 
      theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 45, hjust = 1, size = 8)) + 
      # ggthemes::scale_fill_gdocs() +
      scale_x_date(breaks  = major_rv_dates, labels = major_rvs) + 
      xlab("Version") + ylab("Function count") + 
      theme(legend.position = "top")

An alternative view:



ggplot(rch_dates, aes(date, fill = "orange")) + 
      stat_count(geom = "area") + 
      scale_x_date(breaks  = major_rv_dates, labels = major_rvs) + 
      theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 45, hjust = 1, size = 8)) + 
      xlab("Version") + ylab("Function count") + 
      facet_wrap(~package, scales = "free_y", ncol = 2) +
      theme(legend.position = "none")