Github Ranking
June 19, 2026 · View on GitHub
Top 100 Stars in R
| Ranking | Project Name | Stars | Forks | Language | Open Issues | Description | Last Commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FriendsDontLetFriends | 7076 | 286 | R | 3 | Friends don't let friends make certain types of data visualization - What are they and why are they bad. | 2025-09-03T15:32:50Z |
| 2 | ggplot2 | 6948 | 2131 | R | 84 | An implementation of the Grammar of Graphics in R | 2026-04-22T12:15:25Z |
| 3 | awesome-R | 6473 | 1512 | R | 6 | A curated list of awesome R packages, frameworks and software. | 2025-09-18T16:46:19Z |
| 4 | shiny | 5656 | 1892 | R | 790 | Easy interactive web applications with R | 2026-06-18T19:40:00Z |
| 5 | r4ds | 5066 | 4426 | R | 18 | R for data science: a book | 2026-04-08T19:42:26Z |
| 6 | dplyr | 5033 | 2131 | R | 80 | dplyr: A grammar of data manipulation | 2026-06-02T15:25:25Z |
| 7 | swirl_courses | 4561 | 7211 | R | 144 | :mortar_board: A collection of interactive courses for the swirl R package. | 2024-01-10T17:38:19Z |
| 8 | stat_rethinking_2022 | 4103 | 433 | R | 11 | Statistical Rethinking course winter 2022 | 2022-03-15T15:07:26Z |
| 9 | awesome-network-analysis | 4068 | 633 | R | 11 | A curated list of awesome network analysis resources. | 2026-04-17T18:25:35Z |
| 10 | data.table | 3893 | 1045 | R | 869 | R's data.table package extends data.frame: | 2026-06-18T16:36:39Z |
| 11 | ML_for_Hackers | 3738 | 2183 | R | 23 | Code accompanying the book "Machine Learning for Hackers" | 2019-05-26T16:52:29Z |
| 12 | AnomalyDetection | 3607 | 764 | R | 62 | Anomaly Detection with R | 2019-08-30T19:49:16Z |
| 13 | rmarkdown | 3038 | 991 | R | 253 | Dynamic Documents for R | 2026-06-18T21:40:32Z |
| 14 | seurat | 2756 | 988 | R | 179 | R toolkit for single cell genomics | 2026-06-18T22:40:17Z |
| 15 | plotly.R | 2671 | 643 | R | 711 | An interactive graphing library for R | 2026-06-05T12:45:41Z |
| 16 | patchwork | 2610 | 170 | R | 74 | The Composer of ggplots | 2025-08-25T10:11:42Z |
| 17 | devtools | 2513 | 762 | R | 4 | Tools to make an R developer's life easier | 2026-04-30T16:20:47Z |
| 18 | knitr | 2455 | 879 | R | 131 | A general-purpose tool for dynamic report generation in R | 2026-06-03T15:50:15Z |
| 19 | rethinking | 2386 | 626 | R | 211 | Statistical Rethinking course and book package | 2026-06-10T07:05:08Z |
| 20 | stat_rethinking_2023 | 2379 | 270 | R | 12 | Statistical Rethinking Course for Jan-Mar 2023 | 2023-11-28T12:15:06Z |
| 21 | ggstatsplot | 2190 | 203 | R | 0 | Enhancing {ggplot2} plots with statistical analysis 📊📣 | 2026-05-03T09:46:52Z |
| 22 | rayshader | 2165 | 219 | R | 39 | R Package for 2D and 3D mapping and data visualization | 2026-06-09T05:41:22Z |
| 23 | gt | 2150 | 221 | R | 313 | Easily generate information-rich, publication-quality tables from R | 2026-02-19T15:06:30Z |
| 24 | labs | 2149 | 1952 | R | 18 | Rmd source files for the HarvardX series PH525x | 2024-02-12T12:55:39Z |
| 25 | DataScienceR | 2145 | 879 | R | 2 | a curated list of R tutorials for Data Science, NLP and Machine Learning | 2023-03-10T11:06:16Z |
| 26 | wesanderson | 2110 | 149 | R | 15 | A Wes Anderson color palette for R | 2024-06-13T20:44:06Z |
| 27 | nyc-taxi-data | 2074 | 567 | R | 2 | Import public NYC taxi and for-hire vehicle (Uber, Lyft) trip data into a PostgreSQL or ClickHouse database | 2025-08-18T17:13:46Z |
| 28 | gganimate | 1982 | 313 | R | 80 | A Grammar of Animated Graphics | 2025-09-04T12:14:57Z |
| 29 | benchm-ml | 1896 | 328 | R | 10 | A minimal benchmark for scalability, speed and accuracy of commonly used open source implementations (R packages, Python scikit-learn, H2O, xgboost, Spark MLlib etc.) of the top machine learning algorithms for binary classification (random forests, gradient boosted trees, deep neural networks etc.). | 2022-09-16T14:01:14Z |
| 30 | esquisse | 1852 | 243 | R | 53 | RStudio add-in to make plots interactively with ggplot2 | 2025-02-21T13:20:45Z |
| 31 | CausalImpact | 1843 | 264 | R | 26 | An R package for causal inference in time series | 2026-03-31T04:46:51Z |
| 32 | tidyverse | 1796 | 294 | R | 11 | Easily install and load packages from the tidyverse | 2025-06-18T20:15:42Z |
| 33 | stat_rethinking_2024 | 1796 | 213 | R | 3 | None | 2024-03-08T10:06:51Z |
| 34 | blogdown | 1790 | 326 | R | 24 | Create Blogs and Websites with R Markdown | 2026-05-06T00:28:38Z |
| 35 | geocompr | 1773 | 614 | R | 9 | Geocomputation with R: an open source book | 2026-06-12T06:51:52Z |
| 36 | reticulate | 1752 | 347 | R | 463 | R Interface to Python | 2026-06-15T19:31:26Z |
| 37 | investing | 1746 | 111 | R | 0 | Investing Returns on the Market as a Whole | 2016-12-27T13:58:02Z |
| 38 | DiagrammeR | 1736 | 248 | R | 169 | Graph and network visualization using tabular data in R | 2026-04-27T20:44:12Z |
| 39 | r-color-palettes | 1700 | 145 | R | 17 | Comprehensive list of color palettes available in R ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 | 2026-06-01T16:25:08Z |
| 40 | mlr | 1681 | 404 | R | 9 | Machine Learning in R | 2025-08-22T19:47:49Z |
| 41 | caret | 1673 | 628 | R | 214 | caret (Classification And Regression Training) R package that contains misc functions for training and plotting classification and regression models | 2026-06-19T03:56:34Z |
| 42 | awesome-shiny-extensions | 1660 | 186 | R | 0 | 🐝 Awesome R and Python packages offering extended UI or server components for the web framework Shiny | 2026-06-18T22:50:57Z |
| 43 | bbplot | 1631 | 272 | R | 12 | R package that helps create and export ggplot2 charts in the style used by the BBC News data team | 2021-07-02T16:44:39Z |
| 44 | stats337 | 1613 | 223 | R | 5 | Readings in applied data science | 2018-06-21T15:57:29Z |
| 45 | rvest | 1520 | 348 | R | 31 | Simple web scraping for R | 2025-09-09T10:02:49Z |
| 46 | broom | 1520 | 303 | R | 12 | Convert statistical analysis objects from R into tidy format | 2026-05-14T16:34:12Z |
| 47 | ComplexHeatmap | 1512 | 247 | R | 228 | Make Complex Heatmaps | 2026-04-02T07:54:48Z |
| 48 | tofsims | 1492 | 6 | R | 0 | None | 2017-11-29T19:16:12Z |
| 49 | janitor | 1447 | 132 | R | 36 | simple tools for data cleaning in R | 2024-12-23T14:20:04Z |
| 50 | plumber | 1438 | 258 | R | 118 | Turn your R code into a web API. | 2026-02-09T15:10:26Z |
| 51 | sf | 1433 | 301 | R | 58 | Simple Features for R | 2026-06-18T14:48:52Z |
| 52 | tidyr | 1432 | 419 | R | 45 | Tidy Messy Data | 2026-06-02T17:43:26Z |
| 53 | rnaseq_tutorial | 1425 | 615 | R | 6 | Informatics for RNA-seq: A web resource for analysis on the cloud. Educational tutorials and working pipelines for RNA-seq analysis including an introduction to: cloud computing, critical file formats, reference genomes, gene annotation, expression, differential expression, alternative splicing, data visualization, and interpretation. | 2023-05-31T18:45:10Z |
| 54 | brms | 1415 | 221 | R | 139 | brms R package for Bayesian generalized multivariate non-linear multilevel models using Stan | 2026-06-11T07:54:54Z |
| 55 | purrr | 1396 | 294 | R | 25 | A functional programming toolkit for R | 2026-04-17T10:22:58Z |
| 56 | mastering-shiny | 1380 | 569 | R | 54 | Mastering Shiny: a book | 2026-02-03T17:06:36Z |
| 57 | ggthemes | 1357 | 224 | R | 14 | Additional themes, scales, and geoms for ggplot2 | 2025-12-01T04:53:55Z |
| 58 | hrbrthemes | 1350 | 98 | R | 30 | :lock_with_ink_pen: Opinionated, typographic-centric ggplot2 themes and theme components | 2026-04-19T13:43:33Z |
| 59 | drake | 1341 | 130 | R | 0 | An R-focused pipeline toolkit for reproducibility and high-performance computing | 2024-12-04T11:25:31Z |
| 60 | tensorflow | 1339 | 318 | R | 40 | TensorFlow for R | 2026-05-08T15:49:04Z |
| 61 | lintr | 1280 | 198 | R | 299 | Static Code Analysis for R | 2026-06-19T03:17:04Z |
| 62 | vitae | 1270 | 245 | R | 43 | R Markdown Résumés and CVs | 2026-01-29T21:51:22Z |
| 63 | ggrepel | 1260 | 95 | R | 25 | :round_pushpin: Repel overlapping text labels away from each other in your ggplot2 figures. | 2026-04-14T13:38:53Z |
| 64 | MetBrewer | 1257 | 88 | R | 8 | Color palette package in R inspired by works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York | 2025-01-03T16:52:43Z |
| 65 | ggpubr | 1246 | 179 | R | 220 | 'ggplot2' Based Publication Ready Plots | 2026-02-28T09:18:45Z |
| 66 | r-source | 1231 | 329 | R | 0 | Read-only mirror of R source code from https://svn.r-project.org/R/, updated hourly. See the build instructions on the wiki page. | 2026-06-18T13:44:50Z |
| 67 | statistics-for-data-scientists | 1224 | 665 | R | 9 | Code and data associated with the book "Statistics for Data Scientists: 50 Essential Concepts" | 2022-12-16T01:16:27Z |
| 68 | advanced-shiny | 1220 | 379 | R | 0 | 🤹 Shiny tips & tricks for improving your apps and solving common problems | 2025-12-21T05:49:16Z |
| 69 | swirl | 1214 | 598 | R | 308 | :cyclone: Learn R, in R. | 2023-10-27T18:00:31Z |
| 70 | clusterProfiler | 1212 | 268 | R | 371 | :bar_chart: A universal enrichment tool for interpreting omics data | 2026-06-16T07:40:26Z |
| 71 | tidytext | 1201 | 181 | R | 8 | Text mining using tidy tools :sparkles::page_facing_up::sparkles: | 2026-02-21T01:56:46Z |
| 72 | gtsummary | 1199 | 149 | R | 37 | Presentation-Ready Data Summary and Analytic Result Tables | 2026-06-18T02:30:58Z |
| 73 | forecast | 1168 | 338 | R | 5 | Forecasting Functions for Time Series and Linear Models | 2026-06-19T01:50:11Z |
| 74 | R | 1159 | 355 | R | 0 | Collection of various algorithms implemented in R. | 2026-06-12T17:55:05Z |
| 75 | renv | 1155 | 165 | R | 216 | renv: Project environments for R. | 2026-06-18T21:07:04Z |
| 76 | easystats | 1154 | 87 | R | 37 | :milky_way: The R easystats-project | 2026-06-17T20:55:37Z |
| 77 | fasteR | 1149 | 190 | R | 10 | Fast Lane to Learning R! | 2026-01-03T03:37:28Z |
| 78 | performance | 1146 | 103 | R | 97 | :muscle: Models' quality and performance metrics (R2, ICC, LOO, AIC, BF, ...) | 2026-06-09T09:12:58Z |
| 79 | tinytex | 1131 | 126 | R | 25 | A lightweight, cross-platform, portable, and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution based on TeX Live | 2026-06-16T15:57:32Z |
| 80 | ggraph | 1115 | 114 | R | 49 | Grammar of Graph Graphics | 2025-08-25T06:42:17Z |
| 81 | targets | 1085 | 83 | R | 0 | Function-oriented Make-like declarative workflows for R | 2026-05-13T17:53:48Z |
| 82 | rstan | 1078 | 268 | R | 344 | RStan, the R interface to Stan | 2026-06-13T18:48:44Z |
| 83 | mlr3 | 1068 | 98 | R | 20 | mlr3: Machine Learning in R - next generation | 2026-06-12T07:10:10Z |
| 84 | paletteer | 1038 | 53 | R | 4 | 🎨🎨🎨 Collection of most color palettes in a single R package | 2026-01-08T06:13:55Z |
| 85 | pointblank | 1037 | 59 | R | 109 | Data quality assessment and metadata reporting for data frames and database tables | 2026-05-10T16:23:33Z |
| 86 | readr | 1034 | 294 | R | 91 | Read flat files (csv, tsv, fwf) into R | 2026-04-10T16:35:05Z |
| 87 | circlize | 1018 | 149 | R | 66 | Circular visualization in R | 2023-11-11T08:34:17Z |
| 88 | future | 1013 | 92 | R | 78 | :rocket: R package: future: Unified Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone | 2026-06-06T19:22:48Z |
| 89 | palmerpenguins | 1012 | 253 | R | 15 | A great intro dataset for data exploration & visualization (alternative to iris). | 2024-09-19T22:20:38Z |
| 90 | gptstudio | 989 | 117 | R | 10 | GPT RStudio addins that enable GPT assisted coding, writing & analysis | 2026-01-03T18:15:49Z |
| 91 | httr | 981 | 1961 | R | 8 | httr: a friendly http package for R | 2026-02-13T21:44:33Z |
| 92 | magrittr | 972 | 161 | R | 22 | Improve the readability of R code with the pipe | 2026-04-05T05:42:58Z |
| 93 | sparklyr | 970 | 308 | R | 347 | R interface for Apache Spark | 2026-06-18T23:17:01Z |
| 94 | box | 967 | 49 | R | 64 | Write reusable, composable and modular R code | 2026-05-29T23:15:38Z |
| 95 | generativeart | 962 | 163 | R | 5 | Create Generative Art with R | 2022-04-27T07:53:49Z |
| 96 | MoRad | 959 | 69 | R | 0 | None | 2025-10-04T02:30:50Z |
| 97 | ggforce | 953 | 110 | R | 68 | Accelerating ggplot2 | 2025-09-15T19:27:31Z |
| 98 | r-pkgs | 948 | 646 | R | 34 | Building R packages | 2026-06-18T08:47:13Z |
| 99 | see | 947 | 46 | R | 29 | :art: Visualisation toolbox for beautiful and publication-ready figures | 2026-06-09T09:44:49Z |
| 100 | golem | 942 | 137 | R | 21 | A Framework for Building Robust Shiny Apps | 2026-06-17T13:48:58Z |