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Structural overview of the CRAN ecosystem.

23,842

Active Packages

0

Archived

12,186

Maintainers

226.3M

Downloads (30d)

CRAN Growth

421 315 210 105 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 26.5%
GPL-3 21.7%
GPL (>= 2) 17.5%
GPL (>= 3) 10.5%
GPL-2 9.2%
GPL 1.8%
GPL-2 | GPL-3 1.4%
CC0 1%
Apache License (>= 2) 0.9%
LGPL-3 0.7%
Apache License 2.0 0.6%
BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE 0.6%
AGPL-3 0.5%
GPL-3 | file LICENSE 0.5%
BSD_2_clause + file LICENSE 0.5%

Compilation

18,654

Pure R

78.2%

5,188

Compiled

21.8%

Package Age

<1 year 3,010
1-3 years 3,830
3-5 years 3,583
5-10 years 8,120
10+ years 5,299

Dependencies

6.4

Avg Deps per Package

Most Depended-Upon

# Package Reverse Deps
1 testthat 11,208
2 knitr 10,812
3 rmarkdown 10,209
4 ggplot2 6,515
5 dplyr 5,877
6 rlang 3,699
7 Rcpp 3,216
8 tidyr 2,992
9 tibble 2,873
10 MASS 2,824