Romain Francois

Also published as Romain François

50 packages On CRAN since Jan 2009 (17 years) · last active 13 days ago 0000-0002-2444-4226

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10.3M

Last 30 days

29.7M

Last 90 days

106.5M

Last year

Average trend: -17.6% (30d vs prior 30d)

Top Packages by Downloads

Rcpp

2.1M

RcppEigen

tibble

1.8M

cpp11

1.7M

dplyr

1.6M

RcppParallel

1.4M

farver

1.4M

knitr

1.1M

inline

712K

readr

646.6K

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Recent Activity

RcppParallel updated v6.2.0 Jul 30, 2026

Parallel Programming Tools for 'Rcpp'

RcppParallel updated v6.1.1 Jul 27, 2026

Parallel Programming Tools for 'Rcpp'

RcppArmadillo updated v15.4.2-1 Jul 25, 2026

'Rcpp' Integration for the 'Armadillo' Templated Linear Algebra Library

RcppParallel updated v6.1.0 Jul 25, 2026

Parallel Programming Tools for 'Rcpp'

RcppParallel updated v6.0.0 Jul 23, 2026

Parallel Programming Tools for 'Rcpp'

arrow updated v25.0.0 Jul 16, 2026

Integration to 'Apache' 'Arrow'

Rcpp updated v1.1.2 Jul 5, 2026

Seamless R and C++ Integration

RcppArmadillo updated v15.4.0-1 Jun 19, 2026

'Rcpp' Integration for the 'Armadillo' Templated Linear Algebra Library

fastglm updated v0.1.1 Jun 7, 2026

Fast and Stable Fitting of Generalized Linear Models using 'RcppEigen'

polish new v0.3.1 Jun 3, 2026

Polishing Content for 'Word' and 'PowerPoint'

Maintained Packages

7 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
operators	Additional Binary Operators	2K	0.2.0
tada	Supporting Tools for Tada Science	136	2024.1.0
hera	Companion to the 'xeus-r' 'jupyter' Kernel	129	0.1.1
link	Hyperlink Automatic Detection	125	2024.4.0
react	Reactivity Helper for 'shiny'	118	2024.1.0
valentine	Spread the Love for R Packages with Poetry	106	2025.2.14
slap	Simplified Error Handling	104	2024.4.1

Co-authored Packages

25 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
Rcpp	Seamless R and C++ Integration	2.1M	1.1.2
RcppEigen	'Rcpp' Integration for the 'Eigen' Templated Linear Algebra Library	2M	0.3.4.0.2
cpp11	A C++11 Interface for R's C Interface	1.7M	0.5.5
dplyr	A Grammar of Data Manipulation	1.6M	1.2.1
RcppParallel	Parallel Programming Tools for 'Rcpp'	1.4M	6.2.0
farver	High Performance Colour Space Manipulation	1.4M	2.1.2
inline	Functions to Inline C, C++, Fortran Function Calls from R	712K	0.3.21
RcppArmadillo	'Rcpp' Integration for the 'Armadillo' Templated Linear Algebra Library	509.5K	15.4.2-1
arrow	Integration to 'Apache' 'Arrow'	188K	25.0.0
gt	Easily Create Presentation-Ready Display Tables	113.8K	1.3.0
decor	Retrieve Code Decorations	16.4K	1.0.2
bibtex	Bibtex Parser	12K	0.5.2
RcppGSL	'Rcpp' Integration for 'GNU GSL' Vectors and Matrices	8.2K	0.3.14
asciicast	Create 'Ascii' Screen Casts from R Scripts	4.8K	2.3.1
RProtoBuf	R Interface to the 'Protocol Buffers' 'API' (Version 2 or 3)	1.9K	0.4.27
RInside	C++ Classes to Embed R in C++ (and C) Applications	1.5K	0.2.19
RcppBDT	'Rcpp' Bindings for the Boost Date_Time Library	1K	0.2.8
highlight	Syntax Highlighter	828	0.5.2
polish	Polishing Content for 'Word' and 'PowerPoint'	329	0.3.1
RcppClassic	Deprecated 'classic' 'Rcpp' 'API'	215	0.9.14
lest	Vectorised Nested if-else Statements Similar to CASE WHEN in 'SQL'	173	1.1.0
RcppClassicExamples	Examples using 'RcppClassic' to Interface R and C++	172	0.1.4
svTools	Wrappers for Tools in Other Packages for IDE Friendliness	148	0.9-5
RcppExamples	Examples using 'Rcpp' to Interface R and C++	137	0.1.10
lay	Simple but Efficient Rowwise Jobs	119	0.1.3

Contributions

16 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
tibble	Simple Data Frames	1.8M	3.3.1
knitr	A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R	1.1M	1.51
readr	Read Rectangular Text Data	646.6K	2.2.0
DescTools	Tools for Descriptive Statistics	40.9K	0.99.60
minty	Minimal Type Guesser	8.1K	0.0.6
ftExtra	Extensions for 'Flextable'	4.6K	0.6.4
hipread	Read Hierarchical Fixed Width Files	3K	0.2.6
svMisc	Miscellaneous Functions for 'SciViews::R'	1.1K	1.4.3
emoji	Data and Function to Work with Emojis	560	16.0.0
keyATM	Keyword Assisted Topic Models	416	0.5.5
gravity	Estimation Methods for Gravity Models	404	1.1
papeR	A Toolbox for Writing Pretty Papers and Reports	356	1.0-6
powerjoin	Extensions of 'dplyr' and 'fuzzyjoin' Join Functions	243	0.1.0
memshare	Shared Memory Multithreading	216	1.1.1
knitrProgressBar	Provides Progress Bars in 'knitr'	184	1.1.1
ralger	Easy Web Scraping	166	2.3.0

Other Roles

2 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
fastglm	Fast and Stable Fitting of Generalized Linear Models using 'RcppEigen'	10.5K	0.1.1
simts	Time Series Analysis Tools	358	0.2.4

Roles

Maintains 7

Co-authors 25

Contributes 16

Impact

15.1K

packages depend on their work

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packages with 10+ dependents

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knitr 11,430 deps

dplyr 6,103 deps

Rcpp 3,335 deps

Frequent Collaborators

Romain François 20 pkgs

Dirk Eddelbuettel 14 pkgs

Hadley Wickham 12 pkgs

Jim Hester 6 pkgs

Kirill Müller 4 pkgs

Lionel Henry 4 pkgs

Davis Vaughan 3 pkgs

Doug Bates 3 pkgs

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