This function uses the biocDownloadStats data to approximate when a package entered Bioconductor. Note that the download stats go back only to 2009.
firstInBioc(download_stats)a data.frame from biocDownloadStats
dls <- biocDownloadStats()
#> 'getOption("repos")' replaces Bioconductor standard repositories, see
#> 'help("repositories", package = "BiocManager")' for details.
#> Replacement repositories:
#> CRAN: https://cran.rstudio.com
tail(firstInBioc(dls))
#> # A tibble: 6 × 7
#> # Groups: Package [6]
#> pkgType Package Year Month Nb_of_distinct_IPs Nb_of_downloads Date
#> <chr> <chr> <int> <chr> <int> <int> <date>
#> 1 data-annota… ygs98f… 2013 Jan 0 0 2013-01-01
#> 2 data-annota… ygs98p… 2009 Jan 25 43 2009-01-01
#> 3 data-annota… zebraf… 2009 Jan 37 57 2009-01-01
#> 4 data-annota… zebraf… 2009 Jan 23 40 2009-01-01
#> 5 data-annota… zebraf… 2009 Jan 67 94 2009-01-01
#> 6 data-annota… zebraf… 2009 Jan 31 51 2009-01-01