====== Quantify the impact of your R packages ====== Software development often takes a lot of time but its impact is often difficult to evaluate. If you have developed an R package and upload it to CRAN, you might be able to get some download information but not a lot. Since R studio hosts the CRAN mirror, it keeps tracking the download statistics of the R packages installed from the RStudio mirror and therefore provides some useful information. It also provides an R package -cranlogs- to get the information within R. Certainly, the information is not incomplete but at least it provides the developers some ideas on how their packages are used. For example, the code below is used to get the download information in the past month of an R package coefficientalpha I developed. library(cranlogs) cran_downloads('coefficientalpha', when='last-month') date count package 1 2019-04-08 15 coefficientalpha 2 2019-04-09 15 coefficientalpha 3 2019-04-10 25 coefficientalpha 4 2019-04-11 18 coefficientalpha 5 2019-04-12 25 coefficientalpha 6 2019-04-13 13 coefficientalpha 7 2019-04-14 11 coefficientalpha 8 2019-04-15 22 coefficientalpha 9 2019-04-16 15 coefficientalpha 10 2019-04-17 31 coefficientalpha 11 2019-04-18 11 coefficientalpha 12 2019-04-19 19 coefficientalpha 13 2019-04-20 14 coefficientalpha 14 2019-04-21 14 coefficientalpha 15 2019-04-22 19 coefficientalpha 16 2019-04-23 6 coefficientalpha 17 2019-04-24 21 coefficientalpha 18 2019-04-25 19 coefficientalpha 19 2019-04-26 7 coefficientalpha 20 2019-04-27 11 coefficientalpha 21 2019-04-28 13 coefficientalpha 22 2019-04-29 38 coefficientalpha 23 2019-04-30 14 coefficientalpha 24 2019-05-01 18 coefficientalpha 25 2019-05-02 18 coefficientalpha 26 2019-05-03 10 coefficientalpha 27 2019-05-04 3 coefficientalpha 28 2019-05-05 15 coefficientalpha 29 2019-05-06 58 coefficientalpha 30 2019-05-07 39 coefficientalpha {{tag>}} ~~LINKBACK~~ ~~DISCUSSION~~