Romain Francois

30 packages 20 years on CRAN 0000-0002-2444-4226

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10.2M

Last 30 days

26.5M

Last 90 days

98.4M

Last year

Average trend: +9% (30d vs prior 30d)

Top Packages by Downloads

Rcpp

2.1M

tibble

1.9M

RcppEigen

1.9M

knitr

1.3M

RcppParallel

891.7K

readr

768.6K

RcppArmadillo

649.2K

inline

636.4K

DescTools

53.3K

bibtex

14.6K

Portfolio Check Status

Aggregate CRAN check results across 1 maintained package.

Recent Activity

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'

RcppArmadillo updated v15.2.7-1 May 29, 2026

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

fastglm updated v0.1.0 May 5, 2026

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

memshare updated v1.1.1 May 4, 2026

Shared Memory Multithreading

operators updated v0.2.0 May 4, 2026

Additional Binary Operators

RProtoBuf updated v0.4.27 Apr 26, 2026

R Interface to the 'Protocol Buffers' 'API' (Version 2 or 3)

Rcpp updated v1.1.1-1.1 Apr 24, 2026

Seamless R and C++ Integration

RcppArmadillo updated v15.2.6-1 Apr 21, 2026

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

Rcpp updated v1.1.1-1 Apr 15, 2026

Seamless R and C++ Integration

Maintained Packages

1 package

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
operators	Additional Binary Operators	2.8K	0.2.0

Co-authored Packages

16 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
Rcpp	Seamless R and C++ Integration	2.1M	1.1.1-1.1
RcppEigen	'Rcpp' Integration for the 'Eigen' Templated Linear Algebra Library	1.9M	0.3.4.0.2
RcppParallel	Parallel Programming Tools for 'Rcpp'	891.7K	5.1.11-2
RcppArmadillo	'Rcpp' Integration for the 'Armadillo' Templated Linear Algebra Library	649.2K	15.4.0-1
inline	Functions to Inline C, C++, Fortran Function Calls from R	636.4K	0.3.21
bibtex	Bibtex Parser	14.6K	0.5.2
asciicast	Create 'Ascii' Screen Casts from R Scripts	9.3K	2.3.1
RcppGSL	'Rcpp' Integration for 'GNU GSL' Vectors and Matrices	8.8K	0.3.14
RInside	C++ Classes to Embed R in C++ (and C) Applications	2.1K	0.2.19
RProtoBuf	R Interface to the 'Protocol Buffers' 'API' (Version 2 or 3)	1.7K	0.4.27
RcppBDT	'Rcpp' Bindings for the Boost Date_Time Library	1.4K	0.2.8
highlight	Syntax Highlighter	1K	0.5.2
RcppClassic	Deprecated 'classic' 'Rcpp' 'API'	815	0.9.14
RcppClassicExamples	Examples using 'RcppClassic' to Interface R and C++	533	0.1.4
RcppExamples	Examples using 'Rcpp' to Interface R and C++	313	0.1.10
svTools	Wrappers for Tools in Other Packages for IDE Friendliness	284	0.9-5

Contributions

11 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
tibble	Simple Data Frames	1.9M	3.3.1
knitr	A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R	1.3M	1.51
readr	Read Rectangular Text Data	768.6K	2.2.0
DescTools	Tools for Descriptive Statistics	53.3K	0.99.60
minty	Minimal Type Guesser	9.7K	0.0.6
hipread	Read Hierarchical Fixed Width Files	4.3K	0.2.6
svMisc	Miscellaneous Functions for 'SciViews::R'	1.6K	1.4.3
papeR	A Toolbox for Writing Pretty Papers and Reports	468	1.0-6
gravity	Estimation Methods for Gravity Models	452	1.1
knitrProgressBar	Provides Progress Bars in 'knitr'	284	1.1.1
memshare	Shared Memory Multithreading	261	1.1.1

Other Roles

2 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
fastglm	Fast and Stable Fitting of Generalized Linear Models using 'RcppEigen'	13.5K	0.1.1
simts	Time Series Analysis Tools	733	0.2.4

Roles

Maintains 1

Co-authors 16

Contributes 11

Impact

13.5K

packages depend on their work

Frequent Collaborators

Dirk Eddelbuettel 13 pkgs

Hadley Wickham 8 pkgs

Jim Hester 4 pkgs

Doug Bates 3 pkgs

JJ Allaire 3 pkgs

Jennifer Bryan 3 pkgs

Kevin Ushey 3 pkgs

Andre Simon 2 pkgs

+4 more

On CRAN Since

May 28, 2007

20 years active

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