Recognizing the Contributions that Power the R Ecosystem of Packages in CRAN

The global R community is a vibrant and collaborative ecosystem of developers who create a vast array of invaluable packages to streamline the work of data analysts, scientists, and researchers. These developers play a crucial role in advancing the capabilities of the R language and making it an indispensable tool for modern data analysis. By contributing their time, expertise, and creativity to developing high-quality, utility-driven R packages, these developers save their peers countless hours and resources. Highlighting the achievements of these unsung heroes not only recognizes their valuable contributions but also inspires others to follow in their footsteps.

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leaps / 1997 / Thomas Lumley

The First R package published in CRAN and year of publication

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Author

Hadley Wickham / 170 packages

The author with the most R packages published in R CRAN and number of packages.

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Package

knitr / 9,666 / Yihui Xie

The most cited R package in CRAN and total citations and maintainer

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Author

Hadley Wickham / 74,646 Citations

The most cited author of R packages

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ggplot2 / > 152M

The most downloaded R package based on CRAN downloads and counts

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lofifonts / Mike Cheng

The latest or newest R package published in CRAN

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Package

Seurat / 53

The R package that imports the most number of other R packages

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stats / 6,289

The R package that is imported most by other packages

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dplyr / 3,958

The 2nd R package that is imported most by other packages

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mlpack / 148

R packages with the most number of authors and number

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