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10.9K
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24.7K
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9.1K
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SA
Sanmi (Oluwasanmi) Adenaiye
Joined Aug 9, 2026
qvivid
HA
Heidi Helena Andersén
Joined Aug 9, 2026
palettecore
GB
Grant M. Berry
Joined Aug 9, 2026
phontrast
TC
Thierry Chekouo
Joined Aug 9, 2026
IntegMultiReg
MH
M. Harshvardhan
Joined Aug 9, 2026
smartcor
RH
Ria H. A. Hoekstra
Joined Aug 9, 2026
netsimhelpers
| Name | Packages |
|---|---|
| Hadley Wickham |
170
|
| Dirk Eddelbuettel |
103
|
| Jeroen Ooms |
98
|
| Martin Maechler |
86
|
| Kurt Hornik |
85
|
| Achim Zeileis |
79
|
| Scott Chamberlain |
72
|
| Michail Tsagris |
61
|
| Gábor Csárdi |
59
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| Kirill Müller |
59
|
| Max Kuhn |
56
|
| Winston Chang |
52
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| Yihui Xie |
51
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| Henrik Bengtsson |
50
|
| Jim Hester |
47
|
| Frederic Bertrand |
46
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| John Muschelli |
46
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| Torsten Hothorn |
44
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| Ben Bolker |
42
|
| Rob Hyndman |
42
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| Stéphane Laurent |
42
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| Michel Lang |
41
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| Thomas Lin Pedersen |
41
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| Shikhar Tyagi |
41
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| Brian Ripley |
40
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