Romain Francois

27 packages 1 year on CRAN 0000-0002-2444-4226

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Downloads

9.4M

Last 30 days

9.5M

Last 90 days

9.5M

Last year

Average trend: -2.4% (30d vs prior 30d)

Top Packages by Downloads

tibble

2.1M

Rcpp

1.9M

RcppEigen

1.4M

knitr

1.2M

readr

909.4K

RcppParallel

716.3K

inline

631.1K

RcppArmadillo

568.3K

DescTools

70.2K

RProtoBuf

14.7K

Recent Activity

DescTools new v0.99.60 Mar 9, 2026

Tools for Descriptive Statistics

RInside new v0.2.19 Mar 9, 2026

C++ Classes to Embed R in C++ (and C) Applications

RProtoBuf new v0.4.26 Mar 9, 2026

R Interface to the 'Protocol Buffers' 'API' (Version 2 or 3)

Rcpp new v1.1.1 Mar 9, 2026

Seamless R and C++ Integration

RcppArmadillo new v15.2.3-1 Mar 9, 2026

'Rcpp' Integration for the 'Armadillo' Templated Linear Algebra Library

RcppBDT new v0.2.7 Mar 9, 2026

'Rcpp' Bindings for the Boost Date_Time Library

RcppEigen new v0.3.4.0.2 Mar 9, 2026

'Rcpp' Integration for the 'Eigen' Templated Linear Algebra Library

RcppExamples new v0.1.10 Mar 9, 2026

Examples using 'Rcpp' to Interface R and C++

RcppGSL new v0.3.14 Mar 9, 2026

'Rcpp' Integration for 'GNU GSL' Vectors and Matrices

RcppParallel new v5.1.11-2 Mar 9, 2026

Parallel Programming Tools for 'Rcpp'

Co-authored Packages

14 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
Rcpp	Seamless R and C++ Integration	1.9M	1.1.1
RcppEigen	'Rcpp' Integration for the 'Eigen' Templated Linear Algebra Library	1.4M	0.3.4.0.2
RcppParallel	Parallel Programming Tools for 'Rcpp'	716.3K	5.1.11-2
inline	Functions to Inline C, C++, Fortran Function Calls from R	631.1K	0.3.21
RcppArmadillo	'Rcpp' Integration for the 'Armadillo' Templated Linear Algebra Library	568.3K	15.2.3-1
RProtoBuf	R Interface to the 'Protocol Buffers' 'API' (Version 2 or 3)	14.7K	0.4.26
bibtex	Bibtex Parser	14.3K	0.5.2
RcppGSL	'Rcpp' Integration for 'GNU GSL' Vectors and Matrices	6.7K	0.3.14
asciicast	Create 'Ascii' Screen Casts from R Scripts	3.3K	2.3.1
RInside	C++ Classes to Embed R in C++ (and C) Applications	2.4K	0.2.19
RcppBDT	'Rcpp' Bindings for the Boost Date_Time Library	1.5K	0.2.7
highlight	Syntax Highlighter	1.2K	0.5.2
RcppExamples	Examples using 'Rcpp' to Interface R and C++	239	0.1.10
svTools	Wrappers for Tools in Other Packages for IDE Friendliness	207	0.9-5

Contributions

11 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
tibble	Simple Data Frames	2.1M	3.3.1
knitr	A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R	1.2M	1.51
readr	Read Rectangular Text Data	909.4K	2.2.0
DescTools	Tools for Descriptive Statistics	70.2K	0.99.60
minty	Minimal Type Guesser	11K	0.0.6
hipread	Read Hierarchical Fixed Width Files	3.6K	0.2.5
svMisc	Miscellaneous Functions for 'SciViews::R'	1.7K	1.4.3
gravity	Estimation Methods for Gravity Models	468	1.1
papeR	A Toolbox for Writing Pretty Papers and Reports	370	1.0-6
knitrProgressBar	Provides Progress Bars in 'knitr'	215	1.1.1
memshare	Shared Memory Multithreading	169	1.1.0

Other Roles

2 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
fastglm	Fast and Stable Fitting of Generalized Linear Models using 'RcppEigen'	10.2K	0.0.4
simts	Time Series Analysis Tools	446	0.2.3

Roles

Co-authors 14

Contributes 11

Impact

12.7K

packages depend on their work

Frequent Collaborators

Dirk Eddelbuettel 11 pkgs

Hadley Wickham 8 pkgs

Jim Hester 4 pkgs

Doug Bates 3 pkgs

JJ Allaire 3 pkgs

Jennifer Bryan 3 pkgs

Kevin Ushey 3 pkgs

Andre Simon 2 pkgs

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On CRAN Since

Mar 9, 2026

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