Exploring CRAN's files: part 3

In the blog post of CRAN files, I initially explored the database (mostly around CRAN_package_db() ). On the second post I moved to analyze the archive around CRAN_archive_db() . Recently at useR!2024, Kurt Hornik offered to export data from CRAN. After an email several new functions were exported and introduced to base R. In that presentation and in a previous exchange with Kurt, he explained his…