Michael Friendly

30 packages On CRAN since Apr 2001 (25 years) · last active 5 months ago 0000-0002-3237-0941

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2.3M

Last 30 days

7.4M

Last 90 days

27.8M

Last year

Average trend: -0.4% (30d vs prior 30d)

Top Packages by Downloads

knitr

1.2M

car

452K

vegan

153K

Lahman

123.9K

60.3K

DescTools

50.3K

vcd

49.3K

seriation

47.1K

effects

35.4K

sem

24.6K

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Aggregate CRAN check results across 16 maintained packages.

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Recent Activity

fortunes updated v1.5-5 Jun 26, 2026

R Fortunes

vcdExtra updated v0.9.6 Jun 7, 2026

'vcd' Extensions and Additions

candisc updated v1.1.1 Jun 5, 2026

Visualizing Generalized Canonical Discriminant and Canonical Correlation Analysis

nestedLogit updated v0.4.2 May 28, 2026

Nested Dichotomy Logistic Regression Models

vegan updated v2.7-5 May 25, 2026

Community Ecology Package

vcdExtra updated v0.9.3 Mar 18, 2026

'vcd' Extensions and Additions

CASIdata new v0.2.1 Mar 10, 2026

Datasets from Computer Age Statistical Inference

DescTools new v0.99.60 Mar 10, 2026

Tools for Descriptive Statistics

Guerry new v1.8.3 Mar 10, 2026

Maps, Data and Methods Related to Guerry (1833) "Moral Statistics of France"

HistData new v1.0.0 Mar 10, 2026

Data Sets from the History of Statistics and Data Visualization

Maintained Packages

16 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
vcdExtra	'vcd' Extensions and Additions	6.9K	0.9.6
heplots	Visualizing Hypothesis Tests in Multivariate Linear Models	6.8K	1.8.1
nestedLogit	Nested Dichotomy Logistic Regression Models	5.9K	0.4.2
candisc	Visualizing Generalized Canonical Discriminant and Canonical Correlation Analysis	4.4K	1.1.1
matlib	Matrix Functions for Teaching and Learning Linear Algebra and Multivariate Statistics	4.3K	1.0.1
Guerry	Maps, Data and Methods Related to Guerry (1833) "Moral Statistics of France"	3.4K	1.8.3
mvinfluence	Influence Measures and Diagnostic Plots for Multivariate Linear Models	2.4K	0.9.2
HistData	Data Sets from the History of Statistics and Data Visualization	2.3K	1.0.0
ggbiplot	A Grammar of Graphics Implementation of Biplots	2K	0.6.2
statquotes	Quotes on Statistics, Data Visualization and Science	401	0.3.3
genridge	Generalized Ridge Trace Plots for Ridge Regression	373	0.8.0
VisCollin	Visualizing Collinearity Diagnostics	266	0.1.2
WordPools	Word Pools Used in Studies of Learning and Memory	266	1.2.0
colorize	Render Text in Color for Markdown/Quarto Documents	256	0.2.1
twoway	Analysis of Two-Way Tables	227	0.6.3
CASIdata	Datasets from Computer Age Statistical Inference	217	0.2.1

Co-authored Packages

3 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
Lahman	Sean 'Lahman' Baseball Database	123.9K	14.0-0
vcd	Visualizing Categorical Data	49.3K	1.4-13
effects	Effect Displays for Linear, Generalized Linear, and Other Models	35.4K	4.2-5

Contributions

10 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
knitr	A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R	1.2M	1.51
car	Companion to Applied Regression	452K	3.1-5
vegan	Community Ecology Package	153K	2.7-5
ca	Simple, Multiple and Joint Correspondence Analysis	60.3K	0.71.1
DescTools	Tools for Descriptive Statistics	50.3K	0.99.60
seriation	Infrastructure for Ordering Objects Using Seriation	47.1K	1.5.8
sem	Structural Equation Models	24.6K	3.1-16
installr	Using R to Install Stuff on Windows OS (Such As: R, 'Rtools', 'RStudio', 'Git', and More!)	21.1K	0.23.4
fortunes	R Fortunes	4.4K	1.5-5
logmult	Log-Multiplicative Models, Including Association Models	2.7K	0.7.5

Other Roles

1 package

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
psre	Presenting Statistical Results Effectively	305	0.4

Roles

Maintains 16

Co-authors 3

Contributes 10

Impact

11.4K

packages depend on their work

Frequent Collaborators

John Fox 10 pkgs

Achim Zeileis 7 pkgs

Duncan Murdoch 5 pkgs

Ben Bolker 4 pkgs

Georges Monette 4 pkgs

David Firth 3 pkgs

David Meyer 3 pkgs

Hadley Wickham 3 pkgs

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Career

On CRAN since Apr 2001 (25 years) · last active 5 months ago

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