Statistics

Structural overview of the CRAN ecosystem.

24,705

Active Packages

8,603

Archived

12,557

Maintainers

218.5M

Downloads (30d)

4,656

Bioconductor Packages

3,810 current, 846 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 27.6%

GPL-3 21.4%

GPL (>= 2) 17.1%

GPL (>= 3) 10.6%

GPL-2 8.9%

GPL 1.7%

GPL-2 | GPL-3 1.3%

CC0 1%

Apache License (>= 2) 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

19,332

Pure R

78.3%

5,373

Compiled

21.7%

Package Age

<1 year 3,644

1-3 years 3,864

3-5 years 3,531

5-10 years 8,122

10+ years 5,544

Dependencies

6.4

Avg Deps per Package

Most Depended-Upon

#	Package	Title	Reverse Deps
1	testthat	Unit Testing for R	11,992
2	knitr	A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R	11,430
3	rmarkdown	Dynamic Documents for R	10,817
4	ggplot2	Create Elegant Data Visualisations Using the Grammar of Graphics	6,845
5	dplyr	A Grammar of Data Manipulation	6,103
6	rlang	Functions for Base Types and Core R and 'Tidyverse' Features	3,947
7	Rcpp	Seamless R and C++ Integration	3,335
8	tidyr	Tidy Messy Data	3,109
9	tibble	Simple Data Frames	3,051
10	MASS	Support Functions and Datasets for Venables and Ripley's MASS	2,905

Bioconductor packages

846

Annotation 928

Experiment 436

Software 2,418

Workflows 28