Yihui Xie

50 packages 19 years on CRAN On CRAN since Nov 2007 (18 years) · last active 1 day ago 0000-0003-0645-5666

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16.5M

Last 30 days

46.6M

Last 90 days

175.8M

Last year

Average trend: +16.8% (30d vs prior 30d)

Top Packages by Downloads

rmarkdown

1.5M

xfun

1.4M

knitr

1.3M

htmltools

1.2M

tinytex

1.2M

yaml

1.2M

highr

1.1M

evaluate

1.1M

mime

1.1M

htmlwidgets

977.4K

Portfolio Check Status

Aggregate CRAN check results across 23 maintained packages.

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Recent Activity

gsDesign2 updated v1.1.9 Jun 30, 2026

Group Sequential Design with Non-Constant Effect

lt new v0.1 Jun 30, 2026

Lightweight Tables via JSON Specs and JavaScript

shiny updated v1.14.0 Jun 21, 2026

Web Application Framework for R

blogdown updated v1.24 Jun 19, 2026

Create Blogs and Websites with R Markdown

xfun updated v0.59 Jun 19, 2026

Supporting Functions for Packages Maintained by 'Yihui Xie'

testit updated v1.1 Jun 18, 2026

A Simple Package for Testing R Packages

bookdown updated v0.47 Jun 16, 2026

Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown

servr updated v0.33 Jun 16, 2026

A Simple HTTP Server to Serve Static Files or Dynamic Documents

tinytex updated v0.60 Jun 16, 2026

Helper Functions to Install and Maintain TeX Live, and Compile LaTeX Documents

r2rtf updated v1.3.1 Jun 10, 2026

Easily Create Production-Ready Rich Text Format (RTF) Tables and Figures

Maintained Packages

23 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
rmarkdown	Dynamic Documents for R	1.5M	2.31
xfun	Supporting Functions for Packages Maintained by 'Yihui Xie'	1.4M	0.59
knitr	A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R	1.3M	1.51
tinytex	Helper Functions to Install and Maintain TeX Live, and Compile LaTeX Documents	1.2M	0.60
highr	Syntax Highlighting for R Source Code	1.1M	0.12
mime	Map Filenames to MIME Types	1.1M	0.13
markdown	Render Markdown with 'commonmark'	527.5K	2.0
litedown	A Lightweight Version of R Markdown	516.3K	0.9
formatR	Format R Code Automatically	120.9K	1.14
bookdown	Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown	79K	0.47
servr	A Simple HTTP Server to Serve Static Files or Dynamic Documents	55.2K	0.33
testit	A Simple Package for Testing R Packages	33.7K	1.1
pagedown	Paginate the HTML Output of R Markdown with CSS for Print	16.9K	0.24
xaringan	Presentation Ninja	9.5K	0.31
animation	A Gallery of Animations in Statistics and Utilities to Create Animations	6.5K	2.8
blogdown	Create Blogs and Websites with R Markdown	2K	1.24
printr	Automatically Print R Objects to Appropriate Formats According to the 'knitr' Output Format	1.8K	0.3
Rd2roxygen	Convert Rd to 'Roxygen' Documentation	873	1.18
fun	Use R for Fun	486	0.4
tinyimg	Optimize and Compress Images	438	0.4
MSG	Data and Functions for the Book Modern Statistical Graphics	410	0.9
rolldown	R Markdown Output Formats for Storytelling	239	0.2
lt	Lightweight Tables via JSON Specs and JavaScript	-	0.1

Co-authored Packages

10 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
htmltools	Tools for HTML	1.2M	0.5.9
evaluate	Parsing and Evaluation Tools that Provide More Details than the Default	1.1M	1.0.5
htmlwidgets	HTML Widgets for R	977.4K	1.6.4
shiny	Web Application Framework for R	917.7K	1.14.0
DT	A Wrapper of the JavaScript Library 'DataTables'	617.9K	0.34.0
leaflet	Create Interactive Web Maps with the JavaScript 'Leaflet' Library	147.4K	2.2.3
rticles	Article Formats for R Markdown	8.9K	0.27
tufte	Tufte's Styles for R Markdown Documents	8.5K	0.15.0
distill	'R Markdown' Format for Scientific and Technical Writing	4.8K	1.6
gsDesign2	Group Sequential Design with Non-Constant Effect	485	1.1.9

Contributions

17 packages

Package	Title	Downloads	Version
yaml	Methods to Convert R Data to YAML and Back	1.2M	2.3.12
threejs	Interactive 3D Scatter Plots, Networks and Globes	423.8K	0.3.4
pak	Another Approach to Package Installation	330.2K	0.10.0
corrplot	Visualization of a Correlation Matrix	235.3K	0.95
kableExtra	Construct Complex Table with 'kable' and Pipe Syntax	194.7K	1.4.0
reactable	Interactive Data Tables for R	119.2K	0.4.5
webshot	Take Screenshots of Web Pages	39.8K	0.5.5
installr	Using R to Install Stuff on Windows OS (Such As: R, 'Rtools', 'RStudio', 'Git', and More!)	21.7K	0.23.4
prettydoc	Creating Pretty Documents from R Markdown	21.5K	0.4.1
tikzDevice	R Graphics Output in LaTeX Format	16.8K	0.12.6
r2rtf	Easily Create Production-Ready Rich Text Format (RTF) Tables and Figures	7.7K	1.3.1
rhandsontable	Interface to the 'Handsontable.js' Library	6.1K	0.3.8
widgetframe	'Htmlwidgets' in Responsive 'iframes'	4.8K	0.3.1
workflowr	A Framework for Reproducible and Collaborative Data Science	993	1.7.2
vitae	Curriculum Vitae for R Markdown	934	0.6.0
desctable	Produce Descriptive and Comparative Tables Easily	290	0.3.1
rco	The R Code Optimizer	252	1.0.2

Roles

Maintains 23

Co-authors 10

Contributes 17

Impact

12.1K

packages depend on their work

Frequent Collaborators

JJ Allaire 13 pkgs

Christophe Dervieux 10 pkgs

Hadley Wickham 10 pkgs

Joe Cheng 9 pkgs

Barret Schloerke 6 pkgs

Garrick Aden-Buie 6 pkgs

JooYoung Seo 6 pkgs

Carson Sievert 5 pkgs

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Career

On CRAN since Nov 2007 (18 years) · last active 1 day ago

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