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Structural overview of the CRAN ecosystem.

24,090

Active Packages

766

Archived

12,297

Maintainers

244.4M

Downloads (30d)

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.

419 314 209 104 0 1999 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026

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

Most Depended-Upon

# Package Reverse Deps
1 testthat 11,417
2 knitr 10,995
3 rmarkdown 10,392
4 ggplot2 6,617
5 dplyr 5,938
6 rlang 3,773
7 Rcpp 3,260
8 tidyr 3,025
9 tibble 2,918
10 MASS 2,859