Yihui Xie

49 packages 19 years on CRAN 0000-0003-0645-5666

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16.7M

Last 30 days

47.2M

Last 90 days

175.4M

Last year

Average trend: +15.4% (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

989.5K

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Aggregate CRAN check results across 22 maintained packages.

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Recent Activity

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

pak updated v0.10.0 Jun 7, 2026

Another Approach to Package Installation

xfun updated v0.58 Jun 1, 2026

Supporting Functions for Packages Maintained by 'Yihui Xie'

Maintained Packages

22 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'	526.9K	2.0
litedown	A Lightweight Version of R Markdown	515.3K	0.9
formatR	Format R Code Automatically	135.3K	1.14
bookdown	Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown	91.1K	0.47
servr	A Simple HTTP Server to Serve Static Files or Dynamic Documents	55.5K	0.33
testit	A Simple Package for Testing R Packages	34.1K	1.1
pagedown	Paginate the HTML Output of R Markdown with CSS for Print	17.5K	0.24
xaringan	Presentation Ninja	9.9K	0.31
animation	A Gallery of Animations in Statistics and Utilities to Create Animations	6.8K	2.8
blogdown	Create Blogs and Websites with R Markdown	1.9K	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	926	1.18
fun	Use R for Fun	499	0.4
tinyimg	Optimize and Compress Images	474	0.4
MSG	Data and Functions for the Book Modern Statistical Graphics	416	0.9
rolldown	R Markdown Output Formats for Storytelling	242	0.2

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	989.5K	1.6.4
shiny	Web Application Framework for R	923.1K	1.14.0
DT	A Wrapper of the JavaScript Library 'DataTables'	620.2K	0.34.0
leaflet	Create Interactive Web Maps with the JavaScript 'Leaflet' Library	148.7K	2.2.3
rticles	Article Formats for R Markdown	9.3K	0.27
tufte	Tufte's Styles for R Markdown Documents	9K	0.15.0
distill	'R Markdown' Format for Scientific and Technical Writing	4.8K	1.6
gsDesign2	Group Sequential Design with Non-Constant Effect	482	1.1.8

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	420.9K	0.3.4
pak	Another Approach to Package Installation	333.7K	0.10.0
corrplot	Visualization of a Correlation Matrix	241.2K	0.95
kableExtra	Construct Complex Table with 'kable' and Pipe Syntax	195.3K	1.4.0
reactable	Interactive Data Tables for R	119.1K	0.4.5
webshot	Take Screenshots of Web Pages	40.8K	0.5.5
prettydoc	Creating Pretty Documents from R Markdown	22.1K	0.4.1
installr	Using R to Install Stuff on Windows OS (Such As: R, 'Rtools', 'RStudio', 'Git', and More!)	22K	0.23.4
tikzDevice	R Graphics Output in LaTeX Format	17.3K	0.12.6
r2rtf	Easily Create Production-Ready Rich Text Format (RTF) Tables and Figures	8K	1.3.1
rhandsontable	Interface to the 'Handsontable.js' Library	6.2K	0.3.8
widgetframe	'Htmlwidgets' in Responsive 'iframes'	5.2K	0.3.1
workflowr	A Framework for Reproducible and Collaborative Data Science	1K	1.7.2
vitae	Curriculum Vitae for R Markdown	993	0.6.0
desctable	Produce Descriptive and Comparative Tables Easily	287	0.3.1
rco	The R Code Optimizer	249	1.0.2

Roles

Maintains 22

Co-authors 10

Contributes 17

Impact

12K

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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On CRAN Since

Nov 10, 2007

19 years active

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