Statistics
Structural overview of the CRAN ecosystem.
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
26.8%
GPL-3
21.6%
GPL (>= 2)
17.4%
GPL (>= 3)
10.5%
GPL-2
9.1%
GPL
1.7%
GPL-2 | GPL-3
1.3%
CC0
1%
Apache License (>= 2)
0.9%
LGPL-3
0.7%
Apache License 2.0
0.6%
BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE
0.6%
AGPL-3
0.5%
GPL-3 | file LICENSE
0.5%
BSD_2_clause + file LICENSE
0.4%
Compilation
18,842
Pure R
78.2%
5,248
Compiled
21.8%
Package Age
<1 year
3,190
1-3 years
3,821
3-5 years
3,588
5-10 years
8,103
10+ years
5,388
Dependencies
6.4
Avg Deps per Package