Get CRAN Total or Recent Downloads for a Package — get_cran_total

Retrieves either all-time total downloads or the total from the last `n` full months for a given CRAN package.

Usage

get_cran_total_downloads(pkg, months = NULL)

Arguments

pkg: Character string, the name of the CRAN package.
months: Integer. If NULL, returns all-time total; otherwise, returns total from the last `months` full months (excluding current).

Value

An integer: total number of downloads.

Details

Similar data can be obtained via:

https://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/badges/grand-total/ggplot2 https://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/badges/last-month/ggplot2

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
  get_cran_total_downloads("ggplot2")        # all-time total
  # 160776616

  get_cran_total_downloads("ggplot2", 3)     # last 3 full months
  # 4741707

  get_cran_total_downloads("ggplot2", 12)    # last 12 full months
  # 19878885
} # }