Look at the CRAN actions db — cran

CRAN tracks movements of packages and the actions used (for example to report the number of manual actions taken by the volunteers).

Usage

cran_actions(packages = NULL, silent = FALSE)

Arguments

packages: A vector with packages or NULL for all packages.
silent: A logical value to issue warnings about the data or not.

Value

A data.frame with Date, Time, User, Action, Package and Version columns. NA if not able to collect the data from CRAN.

Details

There are three possible actions with packages source code: publish, archive and remove.

Publish: Add it to CRAN's PACKAGES file, users can install that version.
Archive: Removed from CRAN's repository PACKAGES file so users can't access the package with available.packages(). Remains on CRAN archive: https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/.
Remove: Removed from CRAN's archive.

Examples

ca <- cran_actions(silent = TRUE)
head(ca)
#>         Date     Time   User  Action  Package Version
#> 1 2013-02-07 10:00:29 hornik publish       A3   0.9.1
#> 2 2013-03-26 19:58:40 ligges publish       A3   0.9.2
#> 3 2015-08-16 23:05:54 hornik publish       A3   1.0.0
#> 4 2025-06-13 10:12:00 hornik archive       A3   1.0.0
#> 5 2020-06-14 17:10:07 ligges publish AATtools   0.0.1
#> 6 2022-08-12 15:40:11 ligges publish AATtools   0.0.2