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Rank | Package Name | Title | Download count | Current version |
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1 | devtools | Tools to Make Developing R Packages Easier | 109,114 | 2.4.5 |
2 | rlang | Functions for Base Types and Core R and 'Tidyverse' Features | 73,066 | 1.1.4 |
3 | ggplot2 | Create Elegant Data Visualisations Using the Grammar of Graphics | 73,005 | 3.5.1 |
4 | dplyr | A Grammar of Data Manipulation | 70,264 | 1.1.4 |
5 | cli | Helpers for Developing Command Line Interfaces | 68,404 | 3.6.3 |
6 | glue | Interpreted String Literals | 63,026 | 1.8.0 |
7 | lifecycle | Manage the Life Cycle of your Package Functions | 62,422 | 1.0.4 |
8 | vctrs | Vector Helpers | 60,725 | 0.6.5 |
9 | tibble | Simple Data Frames | 54,518 | 3.2.1 |
10 | jsonlite | A Simple and Robust JSON Parser and Generator for R | 53,859 | 1.8.9 |
11 | Rcpp | Seamless R and C++ Integration | 52,856 | 1.0.13-1 |
12 | pillar | Coloured Formatting for Columns | 51,369 | 1.9.0 |
13 | withr | Run Code 'With' Temporarily Modified Global State | 51,147 | 3.0.2 |
14 | magrittr | A Forward-Pipe Operator for R | 50,595 | 2.0.3 |
15 | curl | A Modern and Flexible Web Client for R | 49,324 | 6.0.0 |
16 | R6 | Encapsulated Classes with Reference Semantics | 47,831 | 2.5.1 |
17 | xfun | Supporting Functions for Packages Maintained by 'Yihui Xie' | 47,178 | 0.49 |
18 | tidyselect | Select from a Set of Strings | 47,142 | 1.2.1 |
19 | scales | Scale Functions for Visualization | 47,031 | 1.3.0 |
20 | stringr | Simple, Consistent Wrappers for Common String Operations | 46,899 | 1.5.1 |
21 | fansi | ANSI Control Sequence Aware String Functions | 46,727 | 1.0.6 |
22 | utf8 | Unicode Text Processing | 46,320 | 1.2.4 |
23 | knitr | A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R | 45,979 | 1.49 |
24 | cpp11 | A C++11 Interface for R's C Interface | 45,771 | 0.5.0 |
25 | readxl | Read Excel Files | 45,631 | 1.4.3 |
26 | tidyr | Tidy Messy Data | 45,598 | 1.3.1 |
27 | pkgconfig | Private Configuration for 'R' Packages | 44,389 | 2.0.3 |
28 | purrr | Functional Programming Tools | 44,327 | 1.0.2 |
29 | htmltools | Tools for HTML | 44,173 | 0.5.8.1 |
30 | tidyverse | Easily Install and Load the 'Tidyverse' | 43,940 | 2.0.0 |
31 | digest | Create Compact Hash Digests of R Objects | 43,777 | 0.6.37 |
32 | fontawesome | Easily Work with 'Font Awesome' Icons | 43,009 | 0.5.2 |
33 | bslib | Custom 'Bootstrap' 'Sass' Themes for 'shiny' and 'rmarkdown' | 42,865 | 0.8.0 |
34 | crayon | Colored Terminal Output | 42,604 | 1.5.3 |
35 | fastmap | Fast Data Structures | 42,593 | 1.2.0 |
36 | colorspace | A Toolbox for Manipulating and Assessing Colors and Palettes | 42,479 | 2.1-1 |
37 | farver | High Performance Colour Space Manipulation | 40,861 | 2.1.2 |
38 | rmarkdown | Dynamic Documents for R | 40,849 | 2.29 |
39 | cachem | Cache R Objects with Automatic Pruning | 40,838 | 1.1.0 |
40 | evaluate | Parsing and Evaluation Tools that Provide More Details than the Default | 40,773 | 1.0.1 |
41 | yaml | Methods to Convert R Data to YAML and Back | 40,624 | 2.3.10 |
42 | sass | Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets ('Sass') | 40,619 | 0.4.9 |
43 | fs | Cross-Platform File System Operations Based on 'libuv' | 40,432 | 1.6.5 |
44 | RColorBrewer | ColorBrewer Palettes | 40,312 | 1.1-3 |
45 | munsell | Utilities for Using Munsell Colours | 40,203 | 0.5.1 |
46 | data.table | Extension of 'data.frame' | 40,130 | 1.16.2 |
47 | generics | Common S3 Generics not Provided by Base R Methods Related to Model Fitting | 39,677 | 0.1.3 |
48 | jquerylib | Obtain 'jQuery' as an HTML Dependency Object | 39,285 | 0.1.4 |
49 | gtable | Arrange 'Grobs' in Tables | 39,064 | 0.3.6 |
50 | viridisLite | Colorblind-Friendly Color Maps (Lite Version) | 38,874 | 0.4.2 |
51 | tinytex | Helper Functions to Install and Maintain TeX Live, and Compile LaTeX Documents | 38,807 | 0.54 |
52 | labeling | Axis Labeling | 38,436 | 0.4.3 |
53 | highr | Syntax Highlighting for R Source Code | 38,281 | 0.11 |
54 | openssl | Toolkit for Encryption, Signatures and Certificates Based on OpenSSL | 37,743 | 2.2.2 |
55 | ragg | Graphic Devices Based on AGG | 37,725 | 1.3.3 |
56 | isoband | Generate Isolines and Isobands from Regularly Spaced Elevation Grids | 37,597 | 0.2.7 |
57 | mime | Map Filenames to MIME Types | 37,589 | 0.12 |
58 | hms | Pretty Time of Day | 37,559 | 1.1.3 |
59 | httr | Tools for Working with URLs and HTTP | 37,403 | 1.4.7 |
60 | readr | Read Rectangular Text Data | 37,374 | 2.1.5 |
61 | sys | Powerful and Reliable Tools for Running System Commands in R | 37,171 | 3.4.3 |
62 | askpass | Password Entry Utilities for R, Git, and SSH | 37,140 | 1.2.1 |
63 | stringi | Fast and Portable Character String Processing Facilities | 37,030 | 1.8.4 |
64 | memoise | 'Memoisation' of Functions | 36,693 | 2.0.1 |
65 | rappdirs | Application Directories: Determine Where to Save Data, Caches, and Logs | 36,204 | 0.3.3 |
66 | textshaping | Bindings to the 'HarfBuzz' and 'Fribidi' Libraries for Text Shaping | 35,984 | 0.4.0 |
67 | bit64 | A S3 Class for Vectors of 64bit Integers | 35,863 | 4.5.2 |
68 | bit | Classes and Methods for Fast Memory-Efficient Boolean Selections | 35,744 | 4.5.0 |
69 | xml2 | Parse XML | 35,506 | 1.3.6 |
70 | prettyunits | Pretty, Human Readable Formatting of Quantities | 35,298 | 1.2.0 |
71 | base64enc | Tools for base64 encoding | 34,498 | 0.1-3 |
72 | systemfonts | System Native Font Finding | 34,457 | 1.1.0 |
73 | progress | Terminal Progress Bars | 34,447 | 1.2.3 |
74 | rstudioapi | Safely Access the RStudio API | 34,303 | 0.17.1 |
75 | tzdb | Time Zone Database Information | 33,103 | 0.4.0 |
76 | broom | Convert Statistical Objects into Tidy Tibbles | 32,975 | 1.0.7 |
77 | lubridate | Make Dealing with Dates a Little Easier | 32,915 | 1.9.3 |
78 | processx | Execute and Control System Processes | 31,715 | 3.8.4 |
79 | callr | Call R from R | 31,224 | 3.7.6 |
80 | vroom | Read and Write Rectangular Text Data Quickly | 31,126 | 1.6.5 |
81 | clipr | Read and Write from the System Clipboard | 29,777 | 0.8.0 |
82 | ps | List, Query, Manipulate System Processes | 29,688 | 1.8.1 |
83 | haven | Import and Export 'SPSS', 'Stata' and 'SAS' Files | 29,254 | 2.5.4 |
84 | rematch | Match Regular Expressions with a Nicer 'API' | 28,825 | 2.0.0 |
85 | cellranger | Translate Spreadsheet Cell Ranges to Rows and Columns | 28,693 | 1.1.0 |
86 | timechange | Efficient Manipulation of Date-Times | 28,666 | 0.3.0 |
87 | DBI | R Database Interface | 28,559 | 1.2.3 |
88 | modelr | Modelling Functions that Work with the Pipe | 28,468 | 0.1.11 |
89 | forcats | Tools for Working with Categorical Variables (Factors) | 27,260 | 1.0.0 |
90 | commonmark | High Performance CommonMark and Github Markdown Rendering in R | 27,126 | 1.9.2 |
91 | car | Companion to Applied Regression | 26,718 | 3.1-3 |
92 | htmlwidgets | HTML Widgets for R | 26,295 | 1.6.4 |
93 | rvest | Easily Harvest (Scrape) Web Pages | 26,178 | 1.0.4 |
94 | zoo | S3 Infrastructure for Regular and Irregular Time Series (Z's Ordered Observations) | 26,136 | 1.8-12 |
95 | backports | Reimplementations of Functions Introduced Since R-3.0.0 | 25,850 | 1.5.0 |
96 | dbplyr | A 'dplyr' Back End for Databases | 25,235 | 2.5.0 |
97 | promises | Abstractions for Promise-Based Asynchronous Programming | 24,962 | 1.3.0 |
98 | later | Utilities for Scheduling Functions to Execute Later with Event Loops | 24,439 | 1.3.2 |
99 | shiny | Web Application Framework for R | 24,343 | 1.9.1 |
100 | RcppArmadillo | 'Rcpp' Integration for the 'Armadillo' Templated Linear Algebra Library | 24,341 | 14.0.2-1 |
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