mmaechler

## original idea & report by Henrik Bengtsson at
## https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2016-February/072388.html

## This script downloads the list of currently published R packages
## from CRAN and also looks at all the archived package versions to
## combine these into a list of all R packages ever published on
## CRAN with the date of first release.

## CRAN mirror to use
CRAN_page <- function(...) {