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Abandoned but depended-on

Abandoned but depended-on across CRAN packages, the full top 100.

Abandoned but depended-on

No new version in 18 months, yet many packages still depend on them. Ordered by distinct direct reverse-dependents.

Dependents
1
foreach
1,032
53 mo
2
doParallel
818
53 mo
3
RColorBrewer
696
51 mo
4
tidyselect
677
28 mo
5
plyr
647
33 mo
6
RcppEigen
568
22 mo
7
numDeriv
469
85 mo
8
coda
447
29 mo
9
crayon
391
25 mo
10
ape
390
19 mo
11
htmlwidgets
381
31 mo
12
R.rsp
348
29 mo
13
randomForest
347
21 mo
14
assertthat
345
88 mo
15
nnet
323
18 mo
16
caret
317
19 mo
17
matrixStats
316
18 mo
18
progress
312
31 mo
19
abind
299
22 mo
20
tidyverse
280
40 mo
21
viridis
276
29 mo
22
gtools
271
32 mo
23
lmtest
216
52 mo
24
Formula
204
40 mo
25
quadprog
183
80 mo
26
janitor
182
19 mo
27
microbenchmark
178
22 mo
28
memoise
177
55 mo
29
StanHeaders
149
24 mo
30
corpcor
143
58 mo
31
RSpectra
137
24 mo
32
kernlab
136
23 mo
33
remotes
136
28 mo
34
FNN
130
21 mo
35
iterators
129
53 mo
36
minpack.lm
124
34 mo
37
matrixcalc
123
46 mo
38
KernSmooth
120
18 mo
39
shinythemes
120
65 mo
40
expm
115
23 mo
41
truncnorm
115
40 mo
42
moments
114
50 mo
43
lpSolve
113
19 mo
44
MCMCpack
112
22 mo
45
RcppProgress
111
77 mo
46
shinycssloaders
111
23 mo
47
gtable
110
20 mo
48
rootSolve
104
34 mo
49
formatR
101
42 mo
50
RANN
97
22 mo
51
corrplot
96
21 mo
52
ggtext
96
46 mo
53
signal
91
24 mo
54
config
87
34 mo
55
msm
82
20 mo
56
prettydoc
82
66 mo
57
pscl
80
29 mo
58
tidygraph
78
29 mo
59
desc
77
31 mo
60
tictoc
77
28 mo
61
combinat
76
164 mo
62
doSNOW
76
53 mo
63
flexsurv
75
23 mo
64
bench
74
18 mo
65
rlist
74
58 mo
66
rjson
73
22 mo
67
colourpicker
70
35 mo
68
sna
69
22 mo
69
class
68
18 mo
70
ellipse
66
36 mo
71
palmerpenguins
64
47 mo
72
evd
63
22 mo
73
Rtsne
62
31 mo
74
nortest
62
131 mo
75
gamlss.dist
61
35 mo
76
interp
61
29 mo
77
phangorn
60
22 mo
78
codetools
58
27 mo
79
whisker
58
43 mo
80
hexbin
56
20 mo
81
R2jags
55
21 mo
82
nycflights13
55
63 mo
83
nnls
54
20 mo
84
strucchange
52
22 mo
85
DEoptim
51
44 mo
86
Rglpk
51
30 mo
87
RhpcBLASctl
51
41 mo
88
mvnfast
51
40 mo
89
randtoolbox
51
21 mo
90
shinyFiles
51
47 mo
91
vcd
51
22 mo
92
webshot
51
36 mo
93
Metrics
47
96 mo
94
classInt
47
18 mo
95
vars
47
28 mo
96
minqa
46
23 mo
97
glasso
45
81 mo
98
polynom
45
51 mo
99
tuneR
45
27 mo
100
SnowballC
44
38 mo