Jim Hester

47 packages On CRAN since Dec 2012 (13 years) · last active 13 days ago On Bioconductor since Oct 2005 (20 years) · last active 10 years ago 0000-0002-2739-7082

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22.5M

Last 30 days

69.4M

Last 90 days

269.7M

Last year

Average trend: -15.8% (30d vs prior 30d)

Top Packages by Downloads

glue

withr

1.9M

1.8M

cpp11

1.7M

1.5M

pkgbuild

1.2M

digest

1.2M

desc

1.1M

knitr

1.1M

pkgload

Portfolio Check Status

Aggregate CRAN check results across 3 maintained packages.

Recent Activity

archive updated v1.1.14 Jul 30, 2026

Multi-Format Archive and Compression Support

pak updated v0.11.1 Jul 22, 2026

Another Approach to Package Installation

lintr updated v3.4.0 Jul 15, 2026

A 'Linter' for R Code

pak updated v0.11.0 Jul 15, 2026

Another Approach to Package Installation

urlchecker updated v2.0.0 Jul 8, 2026

Run CRAN URL Checks from Older R Versions

xml2 updated v1.6.0 Jun 22, 2026

Parse XML

withr updated v3.0.3 Jun 19, 2026

Run Code 'With' Temporarily Modified Global State

pkgload updated v1.5.3 Jun 15, 2026

Simulate Package Installation and Attach

pak updated v0.10.0 Jun 7, 2026

Another Approach to Package Installation

sessioninfo updated v1.2.4 Jun 4, 2026

R Session Information

Maintained Packages

3 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
covr	Test Coverage for Packages	182.1K	3.6.5
knitrBootstrap	'knitr' Bootstrap Framework	489	1.0.4
types	Type Annotations	94	1.0.0

Co-authored Packages

32 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
glue	Interpreted String Literals	2M	1.8.1
withr	Run Code 'With' Temporarily Modified Global State	1.9M	3.0.3
fs	Cross-Platform File System Operations Based on 'libuv'	1.8M	2.1.0
cpp11	A C++11 Interface for R's C Interface	1.7M	0.5.5
S7	An Object Oriented System Meant to Become a Successor to S3 and S4	1.5M	0.2.2
pkgbuild	Find Tools Needed to Build R Packages	1.2M	1.4.8
desc	Manipulate DESCRIPTION Files	1.1M	1.4.3
pkgload	Simulate Package Installation and Attach	1M	1.5.3
memoise	'Memoisation' of Functions	1M	2.0.1
xml2	Parse XML	761.5K	1.6.0
brio	Basic R Input Output	684.5K	1.1.5
readr	Read Rectangular Text Data	646.6K	2.2.0
vroom	Read and Write Rectangular Text Data Quickly	586.5K	1.7.1
remotes	R Package Installation from Remote Repositories, Including 'GitHub'	409.1K	2.5.0
reprex	Prepare Reproducible Example Code via the Clipboard	369.5K	2.1.1
devtools	Tools to Make Developing R Packages Easier	275K	2.5.2
pak	Another Approach to Package Installation	261K	0.11.1
rex	Friendly Regular Expressions	211.6K	1.2.2
sessioninfo	R Session Information	183.1K	1.2.4
urlchecker	Run CRAN URL Checks from Older R Versions	160.6K	2.0.0
odbc	Connect to ODBC Compatible Databases (using the DBI Interface)	149.7K	1.7.0
spelling	Tools for Spell Checking in R	69.3K	2.3.2
lintr	A 'Linter' for R Code	62.9K	3.4.0
mockery	Mocking Library for R	50.8K	0.4.5
bench	High Precision Timing of R Expressions	25.9K	1.1.4
decor	Retrieve Code Decorations	16.4K	1.0.2
archive	Multi-Format Archive and Compression Support	11.8K	1.1.14
minty	Minimal Type Guesser	8.1K	0.0.6
gmailr	Access the 'Gmail' 'RESTful' API	1.8K	3.0.0
available	Check if the Title of a Package is Available, Appropriate and Interesting	653	1.1.0
primerTree	Visually Assessing the Specificity and Informativeness of Primer Pairs	202	1.1.0
super	Interpreted String Literals	138	0.1.1

Contributions

12 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
digest	Create Compact Hash Digests of R Objects	1.2M	0.6.39
knitr	A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R	1.1M	1.51
data.table	Extension of `data.frame`	767.4K	1.18.4
markdown	Render Markdown with 'commonmark'	471.7K	2.0
broom	Convert Statistical Objects into Tidy Tibbles	469.7K	1.0.13
repr	Serializable Representations	63K	1.1.7
git2r	Provides Access to Git Repositories	32.4K	0.36.2
naniar	Data Structures, Summaries, and Visualisations for Missing Data	17.6K	1.1.0
readODS	Read and Write ODS Files	9.1K	2.3.5
hipread	Read Hierarchical Fixed Width Files	3K	0.2.6
vapour	Access to the 'Geospatial Data Abstraction Library' ('GDAL')	316	0.16.0
roger	Automated Grading of R Scripts	112	1.5-1

Bioconductor Packages

2 packages

Package	Title	Category	Version
SummarizedExperiment Bioc	A container (S4 class) for matrix-like assays	software	1.42.0
affxparser Bioc	Affymetrix File Parsing SDK	software	1.84.0

Roles

Maintains 3

Co-authors 32

Contributes 12

Impact

13.8K

packages depend on their work

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packages with 10+ dependents

Most depended on

knitr 11,430 deps

covr 2,283 deps

data.table 1,856 deps

Frequent Collaborators

Hadley Wickham 21 pkgs

Gábor Csárdi 10 pkgs

Jennifer Bryan 10 pkgs

Jeroen Ooms 8 pkgs

Winston Chang 8 pkgs

Davis Vaughan 5 pkgs

Henrik Bengtsson 5 pkgs

Kirill Müller 5 pkgs

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Career

On CRAN since Dec 2012 (13 years) · last active 13 days ago

On Bioconductor since Oct 2005 (20 years) · last active 10 years ago

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