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Rank | Package Name | Title | Download count | Current version |
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1 | cli | Helpers for Developing Command Line Interfaces | 458,245 | 3.6.5 |
2 | ggplot2 | Create Elegant Data Visualisations Using the Grammar of Graphics | 441,101 | 3.5.2 |
3 | rlang | Functions for Base Types and Core R and 'Tidyverse' Features | 440,320 | 1.1.6 |
4 | dplyr | A Grammar of Data Manipulation | 411,810 | 1.1.4 |
5 | lifecycle | Manage the Life Cycle of your Package Functions | 359,479 | 1.0.4 |
6 | glue | Interpreted String Literals | 358,547 | 1.8.0 |
7 | tidyverse | Easily Install and Load the 'Tidyverse' | 355,895 | 2.0.0 |
8 | jsonlite | A Simple and Robust JSON Parser and Generator for R | 350,083 | 2.0.0 |
9 | vctrs | Vector Helpers | 344,256 | 0.6.5 |
10 | pillar | Coloured Formatting for Columns | 337,452 | 1.10.2 |
11 | R6 | Encapsulated Classes with Reference Semantics | 333,532 | 2.6.1 |
12 | ragg | Graphic Devices Based on AGG | 325,744 | 1.4.0 |
13 | withr | Run Code 'With' Temporarily Modified Global State | 321,887 | 3.0.2 |
14 | xfun | Supporting Functions for Packages Maintained by 'Yihui Xie' | 321,548 | 0.52 |
15 | Rcpp | Seamless R and C++ Integration | 317,783 | 1.0.14 |
16 | tibble | Simple Data Frames | 317,709 | 3.2.1 |
17 | readxl | Read Excel Files | 317,231 | 1.4.5 |
18 | magrittr | A Forward-Pipe Operator for R | 315,242 | 2.0.3 |
19 | scales | Scale Functions for Visualization | 298,994 | 1.4.0 |
20 | stringi | Fast and Portable Character String Processing Facilities | 294,377 | 1.8.7 |
21 | curl | A Modern and Flexible Web Client for R | 294,184 | 6.2.2 |
22 | fs | Cross-Platform File System Operations Based on 'libuv' | 291,391 | 1.6.6 |
23 | purrr | Functional Programming Tools | 288,147 | 1.0.4 |
24 | stringr | Simple, Consistent Wrappers for Common String Operations | 283,912 | 1.5.1 |
25 | knitr | A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R | 283,841 | 1.50 |
26 | utf8 | Unicode Text Processing | 281,277 | 1.2.4 |
27 | fansi | ANSI Control Sequence Aware String Functions | 281,218 | 1.0.6 |
28 | tidyr | Tidy Messy Data | 277,422 | 1.3.1 |
29 | tidyselect | Select from a Set of Strings | 276,077 | 1.2.1 |
30 | sass | Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets ('Sass') | 275,932 | 0.4.10 |
31 | mime | Map Filenames to MIME Types | 275,525 | 0.13 |
32 | cpp11 | A C++11 Interface for R's C Interface | 273,482 | 0.5.2 |
33 | digest | Create Compact Hash Digests of R Objects | 273,249 | 0.6.37 |
34 | pkgconfig | Private Configuration for 'R' Packages | 270,824 | 2.0.3 |
35 | htmltools | Tools for HTML | 264,893 | 0.5.8.1 |
36 | crayon | Colored Terminal Output | 263,138 | 1.5.3 |
37 | bslib | Custom 'Bootstrap' 'Sass' Themes for 'shiny' and 'rmarkdown' | 259,031 | 0.9.0 |
38 | fastmap | Fast Data Structures | 258,194 | 1.2.0 |
39 | evaluate | Parsing and Evaluation Tools that Provide More Details than the Default | 257,287 | 1.0.3 |
40 | rmarkdown | Dynamic Documents for R | 255,831 | 2.29 |
41 | yaml | Methods to Convert R Data to YAML and Back | 252,574 | 2.3.10 |
42 | tinytex | Helper Functions to Install and Maintain TeX Live, and Compile LaTeX Documents | 251,940 | 0.57 |
43 | gtable | Arrange 'Grobs' in Tables | 251,635 | 0.3.6 |
44 | farver | High Performance Colour Space Manipulation | 251,483 | 2.1.2 |
45 | RColorBrewer | ColorBrewer Palettes | 250,870 | 1.1-3 |
46 | httr | Tools for Working with URLs and HTTP | 249,896 | 1.4.7 |
47 | cachem | Cache R Objects with Automatic Pruning | 249,507 | 1.1.0 |
48 | generics | Common S3 Generics not Provided by Base R Methods Related to Model Fitting | 248,862 | 0.1.3 |
49 | jquerylib | Obtain 'jQuery' as an HTML Dependency Object | 247,499 | 0.1.4 |
50 | viridisLite | Colorblind-Friendly Color Maps (Lite Version) | 245,252 | 0.4.2 |
51 | data.table | Extension of 'data.frame' | 243,455 | 1.17.0 |
52 | labeling | Axis Labeling | 240,578 | 0.4.3 |
53 | fontawesome | Easily Work with 'Font Awesome' Icons | 240,178 | 0.5.3 |
54 | highr | Syntax Highlighting for R Source Code | 238,346 | 0.11 |
55 | xml2 | Parse XML | 236,095 | 1.3.8 |
56 | readr | Read Rectangular Text Data | 235,791 | 2.1.5 |
57 | isoband | Generate Isolines and Isobands from Regularly Spaced Elevation Grids | 235,687 | 0.2.7 |
58 | openssl | Toolkit for Encryption, Signatures and Certificates Based on OpenSSL | 235,652 | 2.3.2 |
59 | base64enc | Tools for base64 encoding | 234,571 | 0.1-3 |
60 | rappdirs | Application Directories: Determine Where to Save Data, Caches, and Logs | 234,132 | 0.3.3 |
61 | tzdb | Time Zone Database Information | 231,108 | 0.5.0 |
62 | bit | Classes and Methods for Fast Memory-Efficient Boolean Selections | 230,803 | 4.6.0 |
63 | memoise | 'Memoisation' of Functions | 230,533 | 2.0.1 |
64 | hms | Pretty Time of Day | 228,271 | 1.1.3 |
65 | sys | Powerful and Reliable Tools for Running System Commands in R | 225,646 | 3.4.3 |
66 | lubridate | Make Dealing with Dates a Little Easier | 225,523 | 1.9.4 |
67 | processx | Execute and Control System Processes | 225,146 | 3.8.6 |
68 | askpass | Password Entry Utilities for R, Git, and SSH | 224,884 | 1.2.1 |
69 | prettyunits | Pretty, Human Readable Formatting of Quantities | 221,638 | 1.2.0 |
70 | systemfonts | System Native Font Finding | 221,552 | 1.2.2 |
71 | colorspace | A Toolbox for Manipulating and Assessing Colors and Palettes | 217,953 | 2.1-1 |
72 | bit64 | A S3 Class for Vectors of 64bit Integers | 216,146 | 4.6.0-1 |
73 | ps | List, Query, Manipulate System Processes | 212,734 | 1.9.1 |
74 | progress | Terminal Progress Bars | 209,702 | 1.2.3 |
75 | callr | Call R from R | 209,042 | 3.7.6 |
76 | textshaping | Bindings to the 'HarfBuzz' and 'Fribidi' Libraries for Text Shaping | 207,900 | 1.0.0 |
77 | broom | Convert Statistical Objects into Tidy Tibbles | 206,847 | 1.0.8 |
78 | rstudioapi | Safely Access the RStudio API | 201,713 | 0.17.1 |
79 | munsell | Utilities for Using Munsell Colours | 198,804 | 0.5.1 |
80 | vroom | Read and Write Rectangular Text Data Quickly | 196,700 | 1.6.5 |
81 | DBI | R Database Interface | 190,498 | 1.2.3 |
82 | clipr | Read and Write from the System Clipboard | 189,838 | 0.8.0 |
83 | backports | Reimplementations of Functions Introduced Since R-3.0.0 | 189,284 | 1.5.0 |
84 | timechange | Efficient Manipulation of Date-Times | 188,166 | 0.3.0 |
85 | haven | Import and Export 'SPSS', 'Stata' and 'SAS' Files | 180,304 | 2.5.4 |
86 | rematch | Match Regular Expressions with a Nicer 'API' | 177,707 | 2.0.0 |
87 | cellranger | Translate Spreadsheet Cell Ranges to Rows and Columns | 177,215 | 1.1.0 |
88 | forcats | Tools for Working with Categorical Variables (Factors) | 173,681 | 1.0.0 |
89 | modelr | Modelling Functions that Work with the Pipe | 172,005 | 0.1.11 |
90 | zoo | S3 Infrastructure for Regular and Irregular Time Series (Z's Ordered Observations) | 170,773 | 1.8-14 |
91 | rprojroot | Finding Files in Project Subdirectories | 164,343 | 2.0.4 |
92 | uuid | Tools for Generating and Handling of UUIDs | 162,622 | 1.2-1 |
93 | dbplyr | A 'dplyr' Back End for Databases | 160,214 | 2.5.0 |
94 | rvest | Easily Harvest (Scrape) Web Pages | 159,648 | 1.0.4 |
95 | blob | A Simple S3 Class for Representing Vectors of Binary Data ('BLOBS') | 156,241 | 1.2.4 |
96 | later | Utilities for Scheduling Functions to Execute Later with Event Loops | 153,205 | 1.4.2 |
97 | gargle | Utilities for Working with Google APIs | 151,224 | 1.5.2 |
98 | googledrive | An Interface to Google Drive | 151,113 | 2.1.1 |
99 | commonmark | High Performance CommonMark and Github Markdown Rendering in R | 150,022 | 1.9.5 |
100 | lazyeval | Lazy (Non-Standard) Evaluation | 149,130 | 0.2.2 |
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