Statistics

Structural overview of the CRAN ecosystem.

25,392

Active Packages

8,699

Archived

12,860

Maintainers

214.4M

Downloads (30d)

4,693

Bioconductor Packages

3,810 current, 883 removed

CRAN Growth

New packages by first-published month, for packages currently listed on CRAN. Packages later archived are no longer counted, so earlier months are undercounts.

New packages published per month

License Distribution

MIT + file LICENSE 28.4%

GPL-3 21.3%

GPL (>= 2) 16.7%

GPL (>= 3) 10.7%

GPL-2 8.5%

GPL 1.6%

GPL-2 | GPL-3 1.3%

Apache License (>= 2) 1%

CC0 1%

LGPL-3 0.7%

Apache License 2.0 0.6%

BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE 0.6%

AGPL-3 0.6%

GPL-3 | file LICENSE 0.5%

BSD_2_clause + file LICENSE 0.4%

Compilation

19,837

Pure R

78.1%

5,555

Compiled

21.9%

Package Age

<1 year 4,030

1-3 years 3,918

3-5 years 3,584

5-10 years 8,090

10+ years 5,770

Dependencies

6.4

Avg Deps per Package

Most depended on

#	Package	Title	Dependents
1	dplyr	A Grammar of Data Manipulation	5,059
2	ggplot2	Create Elegant Data Visualisations Using the Grammar of Graphics	4,972
3	rlang	Functions for Base Types and Core R and 'Tidyverse' Features	3,980
4	Rcpp	Seamless R and C++ Integration	3,403
5	tibble	Simple Data Frames	2,517
6	tidyr	Tidy Messy Data	2,510
7	magrittr	A Forward-Pipe Operator for R	2,268
8	stringr	Simple, Consistent Wrappers for Common String Operations	2,264
9	MASS	Support Functions and Datasets for Venables and Ripley's MASS	2,174
10	purrr	Functional Programming Tools	2,134

Bioconductor packages

883

Annotation 928

Experiment 436

Software 2,418

Workflows 28