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Structural overview of the CRAN ecosystem.

23,536

Active Packages

0

Archived

12,106

Maintainers

218.3M

Downloads (30d)

CRAN Growth

414 310 207 103 0 1999 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026

New packages published per month

License Distribution

MIT + file LICENSE 25.5%
GPL-3 21.9%
GPL (>= 2) 17.9%
GPL (>= 3) 10.2%
GPL-2 9.6%
GPL 1.8%
GPL-2 | GPL-3 1.4%
CC0 1%
Apache License (>= 2) 0.8%
LGPL-3 0.8%
Apache License 2.0 0.6%
BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE 0.6%
AGPL-3 0.6%
GPL-3 | file LICENSE 0.5%
BSD_2_clause + file LICENSE 0.5%

Compilation

18,466

Pure R

78.5%

5,070

Compiled

21.5%

Package Age

<1 year 2,524
1-3 years 3,844
3-5 years 3,590
5-10 years 8,342
10+ years 5,236

Dependencies

6.3

Avg Deps per Package

Most Depended-Upon

# Package Reverse Deps
1 testthat 10,683
2 knitr 10,386
3 rmarkdown 9,771
4 ggplot2 6,295
5 dplyr 5,687
6 rlang 3,519
7 Rcpp 3,128
8 tidyr 2,884
9 MASS 2,784
10 tibble 2,756