Data on Base and Recommended Packages for Current and Previous Versions of R.

rcheology

A data package which lists every command in base R packages since R version 0.50.

The latest R version covered is 4.4.1.

You can view the data online in a Shiny app.

Installing

From r-universe:

install.packages('rcheology', repos = c('https://hughjonesd.r-universe.dev', 
                    'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

From CRAN:

install.packages('rcheology')

Where the data comes from

R versions are built using the evercran project.

Results are found from running ls(all.names = TRUE) on all installed packages. For more details, see guest-list-objects.R.

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

Do it yourself

• Install and start docker.
• Run host-run-on-evercran.sh.

The data

library(rcheology)
data("rcheology")

rcheology[rcheology$name == "kmeans" & rcheology$Rversion %in% c("1.0.1", "1.9.0", "2.1.0", "3.0.2", "3.2.0", "4.0.2"), ]
#>        package   name Rversion priority    type exported hidden    class
#> 341560     mva kmeans    1.0.1     <NA> closure     TRUE  FALSE     <NA>
#> 392116   stats kmeans    1.9.0     base closure     TRUE  FALSE function
#> 392120   stats kmeans    2.1.0     base closure     TRUE  FALSE function
#> 392160   stats kmeans    3.0.2     base closure     TRUE  FALSE function
#> 392166   stats kmeans    3.2.0     base closure     TRUE  FALSE function
#> 392191   stats kmeans    4.0.2     base closure     TRUE  FALSE function
#>        S4generic
#> 341560     FALSE
#> 392116     FALSE
#> 392120     FALSE
#> 392160     FALSE
#> 392166     FALSE
#> 392191     FALSE
#>                                                                                                                              args
#> 341560                                                                                                (x, centers, iter.max = 10)
#> 392116                                                                                                (x, centers, iter.max = 10)
#> 392120                  (x, centers, iter.max = 10, nstart = 1, algorithm = c("Hartigan-Wong",     "Lloyd", "Forgy", "MacQueen"))
#> 392160   (x, centers, iter.max = 10, nstart = 1, algorithm = c("Hartigan-Wong",     "Lloyd", "Forgy", "MacQueen"), trace = FALSE)
#> 392166 (x, centers, iter.max = 10L, nstart = 1L, algorithm = c("Hartigan-Wong",     "Lloyd", "Forgy", "MacQueen"), trace = FALSE)
#> 392191 (x, centers, iter.max = 10L, nstart = 1L, algorithm = c("Hartigan-Wong",     "Lloyd", "Forgy", "MacQueen"), trace = FALSE)

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

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

r_introduced
#> # A tibble: 0 × 10
#> # ℹ 10 variables: package <chr>, name <chr>, Rversion <chr>, priority <chr>,
#> #   type <chr>, exported <lgl>, hidden <lgl>, class <chr>, S4generic <lgl>,
#> #   args <chr>

Base functions over time:

library(ggplot2)

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

major_rvs <- grep(".0$", rvs, value = TRUE)
major_rvs <- gsub("0.50", "0.50-a1", major_rvs)
major_rvs <- gsub("0.60", "0.60.0", major_rvs)
major_rv_dates <- Rversions$date[Rversions$Rversion %in% major_rvs]
major_rv_dates
#>  [1] "1997-07-22" "1997-12-04" "1997-12-22" "1998-11-14" "1999-04-08"
#>  [6] "1999-08-28" "1999-11-22" "2000-02-07" "2000-02-29" "2000-06-15"
#> [11] "2000-12-15" "2001-06-22" "2001-12-19" "2002-04-29" "2002-10-01"
#> [16] "2003-04-16" "2003-10-08" "2004-04-12" "2004-10-04" "2005-04-19"
#> [21] "2005-10-06" "2006-04-24" "2006-10-03" "2007-04-24" "2007-10-03"
#> [26] "2008-04-22" "2008-10-20" "2009-04-17" "2009-10-26" "2010-04-22"
#> [31] "2010-10-15" "2011-04-13" "2011-10-31" "2012-03-30" "2013-04-03"
#> [36] "2014-04-10" "2015-04-16" "2016-05-03" "2017-04-21" "2018-04-23"
#> [41] "2019-04-26" "2020-04-24" "2021-05-18" "2022-04-22" "2023-04-21"
#> [46] "2024-04-24"
major_rvs <- gsub("\\.0$", "", 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")
#> Warning: Removed 1615 rows containing non-finite outside the scale range
#> (`stat_count()`).

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") 
#> Warning: Removed 1615 rows containing non-finite outside the scale range
#> (`stat_count()`).