A Script Providing General Review of Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Downloads of the copBasic and lmomco packages in the R language. It is uncertain how much interest might exist regarding this script. The script was written mostly to satisfy an obviously professional curiosity in the relative downloads of copBasic and lmomco relative to general global activity as measured by the RStudio daily archive of packages from the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN).
The processing time is quite large if run from scratch because a .gz zipped comma-separated (CSV) formatted file is downloaded or for day requested. The daily archive is not much deeper than January 1, 2013. As a result, the script starts (could) there. However, provision is made through the use of RData binary file holding a previous cache of a large data frame is made. In operation, the author commonly waits about a month before saving the AP object to the local file system and then updating some requested dates in start and today variables and the load() call in the script. Lastly, periodic updates to three text files are made for the release dates of copBasic, lmomco, and R itself.