Github-Ranking/Top100/R.md

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## Top 100 Stars in R

| Ranking | Project Name | Stars | Forks | Language | Open Issues | Description | Last Commit |
| ------- | ------------ | ----- | ----- | -------- | ----------- | ----------- | ----------- |
| 1 | [FriendsDontLetFriends](https://github.com/cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends) | 7079 | 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](https://github.com/tidyverse/ggplot2) | 6955 | 2132 | R | 88 | An implementation of the Grammar of Graphics in R | 2026-04-22T12:15:25Z |
| 3 | [awesome-R](https://github.com/qinwf/awesome-R) | 6477 | 1513 | R | 6 | A curated list of awesome R packages, frameworks and software. | 2025-09-18T16:46:19Z |
| 4 | [shiny](https://github.com/rstudio/shiny) | 5659 | 1892 | R | 792 | Easy interactive web applications with R | 2026-06-24T20:27:57Z |
| 5 | [r4ds](https://github.com/hadley/r4ds) | 5073 | 4423 | R | 18 | R for data science: a book | 2026-04-08T19:42:26Z |
| 6 | [dplyr](https://github.com/tidyverse/dplyr) | 5032 | 2130 | R | 80 | dplyr: A grammar of data manipulation | 2026-06-02T15:25:25Z |
| 7 | [swirl_courses](https://github.com/swirldev/swirl_courses) | 4566 | 7208 | R | 144 | :mortar_board: A collection of interactive courses for the swirl R package. | 2024-01-10T17:38:19Z |
| 8 | [stat_rethinking_2022](https://github.com/rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2022) | 4104 | 434 | R | 11 | Statistical Rethinking course winter 2022 | 2022-03-15T15:07:26Z |
| 9 | [awesome-network-analysis](https://github.com/briatte/awesome-network-analysis) | 4069 | 635 | R | 11 | A curated list of awesome network analysis resources. | 2026-04-17T18:25:35Z |
| 10 | [data.table](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table) | 3895 | 1046 | R | 870 | R's data.table package extends data.frame: | 2026-06-30T20:39:45Z |
| 11 | [ML_for_Hackers](https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/ML_for_Hackers) | 3735 | 2184 | R | 23 | Code accompanying the book "Machine Learning for Hackers" | 2019-05-26T16:52:29Z |
| 12 | [AnomalyDetection](https://github.com/twitter/AnomalyDetection) | 3605 | 764 | R | 62 | Anomaly Detection with R | 2019-08-30T19:49:16Z |
| 13 | [rmarkdown](https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown) | 3041 | 993 | R | 253 | Dynamic Documents for R | 2026-06-18T21:40:32Z |
| 14 | [seurat](https://github.com/satijalab/seurat) | 2760 | 989 | R | 179 | R toolkit for single cell genomics | 2026-06-26T13:40:58Z |
| 15 | [plotly.R](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.R) | 2669 | 642 | R | 712 | An interactive graphing library for R | 2026-06-05T12:45:41Z |
| 16 | [patchwork](https://github.com/thomasp85/patchwork) | 2611 | 170 | R | 74 | The Composer of ggplots | 2025-08-25T10:11:42Z |
| 17 | [devtools](https://github.com/r-lib/devtools) | 2513 | 763 | R | 3 | Tools to make an R developer's life easier | 2026-04-30T16:20:47Z |
| 18 | [knitr](https://github.com/yihui/knitr) | 2458 | 881 | R | 132 | A general-purpose tool for dynamic report generation in R | 2026-06-20T05:01:51Z |
| 19 | [rethinking](https://github.com/rmcelreath/rethinking) | 2391 | 628 | R | 211 | Statistical Rethinking course and book package | 2026-06-10T07:05:08Z |
| 20 | [stat_rethinking_2023](https://github.com/rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2023) | 2379 | 270 | R | 12 | Statistical Rethinking Course for Jan-Mar 2023 | 2023-11-28T12:15:06Z |
| 21 | [ggstatsplot](https://github.com/IndrajeetPatil/ggstatsplot) | 2187 | 203 | R | 0 | Enhancing {ggplot2} plots with statistical analysis 📊📣 | 2026-05-03T09:46:52Z |
| 22 | [rayshader](https://github.com/tylermorganwall/rayshader) | 2168 | 219 | R | 41 | R Package for 2D and 3D mapping and data visualization | 2026-07-01T01:32:25Z |
| 23 | [gt](https://github.com/rstudio/gt) | 2154 | 221 | R | 313 | Easily generate information-rich, publication-quality tables from R | 2026-02-19T15:06:30Z |
| 24 | [labs](https://github.com/genomicsclass/labs) | 2151 | 1953 | R | 18 | Rmd source files for the HarvardX series PH525x | 2024-02-12T12:55:39Z |
| 25 | [DataScienceR](https://github.com/ujjwalkarn/DataScienceR) | 2146 | 878 | R | 2 | a curated list of R tutorials for Data Science, NLP and Machine Learning  | 2023-03-10T11:06:16Z |
| 26 | [wesanderson](https://github.com/karthik/wesanderson) | 2115 | 149 | R | 15 | A Wes Anderson color palette for R | 2024-06-13T20:44:06Z |
| 27 | [nyc-taxi-data](https://github.com/toddwschneider/nyc-taxi-data) | 2073 | 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](https://github.com/thomasp85/gganimate) | 1982 | 313 | R | 80 | A Grammar of Animated Graphics | 2025-09-04T12:14:57Z |
| 29 | [benchm-ml](https://github.com/szilard/benchm-ml) | 1894 | 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](https://github.com/dreamRs/esquisse) | 1856 | 243 | R | 53 | RStudio add-in to make plots interactively with ggplot2 | 2025-02-21T13:20:45Z |
| 31 | [CausalImpact](https://github.com/google/CausalImpact) | 1845 | 264 | R | 26 | An R package for causal inference in time series | 2026-03-31T04:46:51Z |
| 32 | [stat_rethinking_2024](https://github.com/rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2024) | 1803 | 213 | R | 3 | None | 2024-03-08T10:06:51Z |
| 33 | [tidyverse](https://github.com/tidyverse/tidyverse) | 1796 | 295 | R | 11 | Easily install and load packages from the tidyverse | 2025-06-18T20:15:42Z |
| 34 | [blogdown](https://github.com/rstudio/blogdown) | 1789 | 326 | R | 24 | Create Blogs and Websites with R Markdown | 2026-06-19T19:22:36Z |
| 35 | [geocompr](https://github.com/geocompx/geocompr) | 1776 | 616 | R | 9 | Geocomputation with R: an open source book | 2026-06-12T06:51:52Z |
| 36 | [reticulate](https://github.com/rstudio/reticulate) | 1754 | 347 | R | 465 | R Interface to Python | 2026-06-15T19:31:26Z |
| 37 | [investing](https://github.com/zonination/investing) | 1745 | 111 | R | 0 | Investing Returns on the Market as a Whole | 2016-12-27T13:58:02Z |
| 38 | [DiagrammeR](https://github.com/rich-iannone/DiagrammeR) | 1735 | 248 | R | 169 | Graph and network visualization using tabular data in R | 2026-04-27T20:44:12Z |
| 39 | [r-color-palettes](https://github.com/EmilHvitfeldt/r-color-palettes) | 1702 | 145 | R | 17 | Comprehensive list of color palettes available in R ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 | 2026-06-01T16:25:08Z |
| 40 | [mlr](https://github.com/mlr-org/mlr) | 1681 | 402 | R | 9 | Machine Learning in R  | 2025-08-22T19:47:49Z |
| 41 | [caret](https://github.com/topepo/caret) | 1672 | 627 | R | 214 | caret (Classification And Regression Training) R package that contains misc functions for training and plotting classification and regression models | 2026-06-30T21:55:25Z |
| 42 | [awesome-shiny-extensions](https://github.com/nanxstats/awesome-shiny-extensions) | 1660 | 186 | R | 0 | 🐝 Awesome R and Python packages offering extended UI or server components for the web framework Shiny | 2026-06-30T21:47:55Z |
| 43 | [bbplot](https://github.com/bbc/bbplot) | 1630 | 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](https://github.com/hadley/stats337) | 1611 | 223 | R | 5 | Readings in applied data science | 2018-06-21T15:57:29Z |
| 45 | [rvest](https://github.com/tidyverse/rvest) | 1520 | 347 | R | 31 | Simple web scraping for R | 2025-09-09T10:02:49Z |
| 46 | [broom](https://github.com/tidymodels/broom) | 1520 | 303 | R | 12 | Convert statistical analysis objects from R into tidy format | 2026-05-14T16:34:12Z |
| 47 | [ComplexHeatmap](https://github.com/jokergoo/ComplexHeatmap) | 1516 | 248 | R | 228 | Make Complex Heatmaps  | 2026-04-02T07:54:48Z |
| 48 | [tofsims](https://github.com/fossasia/tofsims) | 1492 | 6 | R | 0 | None | 2017-11-29T19:16:12Z |
| 49 | [janitor](https://github.com/sfirke/janitor) | 1445 | 132 | R | 36 | simple tools for data cleaning in R | 2024-12-23T14:20:04Z |
| 50 | [plumber](https://github.com/rstudio/plumber) | 1437 | 258 | R | 118 | Turn your R code into a web API. | 2026-02-09T15:10:26Z |
| 51 | [sf](https://github.com/r-spatial/sf) | 1435 | 301 | R | 58 | Simple Features for R | 2026-06-18T14:48:52Z |
| 52 | [tidyr](https://github.com/tidyverse/tidyr) | 1432 | 419 | R | 45 | Tidy Messy Data | 2026-06-02T17:43:26Z |
| 53 | [rnaseq_tutorial](https://github.com/griffithlab/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](https://github.com/paul-buerkner/brms) | 1417 | 221 | R | 140 | brms R package for Bayesian generalized multivariate non-linear multilevel models using Stan | 2026-06-11T07:54:54Z |
| 55 | [purrr](https://github.com/tidyverse/purrr) | 1396 | 293 | R | 25 | A functional programming toolkit for R | 2026-04-17T10:22:58Z |
| 56 | [mastering-shiny](https://github.com/hadley/mastering-shiny) | 1379 | 569 | R | 54 | Mastering Shiny: a book | 2026-02-03T17:06:36Z |
| 57 | [ggthemes](https://github.com/jrnold/ggthemes) | 1355 | 224 | R | 14 | Additional themes, scales, and geoms for ggplot2 | 2025-12-01T04:53:55Z |
| 58 | [hrbrthemes](https://github.com/hrbrmstr/hrbrthemes) | 1350 | 98 | R | 30 | :lock_with_ink_pen: Opinionated, typographic-centric ggplot2 themes and theme components | 2026-04-19T13:43:33Z |
| 59 | [tensorflow](https://github.com/rstudio/tensorflow) | 1340 | 318 | R | 40 | TensorFlow for R | 2026-05-08T15:49:04Z |
| 60 | [drake](https://github.com/ropensci/drake) | 1340 | 130 | R | 0 | An R-focused pipeline toolkit for reproducibility and high-performance computing | 2024-12-04T11:25:31Z |
| 61 | [lintr](https://github.com/r-lib/lintr) | 1286 | 199 | R | 299 | Static Code Analysis for R | 2026-06-22T22:44:57Z |
| 62 | [vitae](https://github.com/mitchelloharawild/vitae) | 1271 | 245 | R | 43 | R Markdown Résumés and CVs | 2026-01-29T21:51:22Z |
| 63 | [MetBrewer](https://github.com/BlakeRMills/MetBrewer) | 1261 | 87 | R | 8 | Color palette package in R inspired by works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York | 2025-01-03T16:52:43Z |
| 64 | [ggrepel](https://github.com/slowkow/ggrepel) | 1258 | 96 | R | 25 | :round_pushpin: Repel overlapping text labels away from each other in your ggplot2 figures. | 2026-04-14T13:38:53Z |
| 65 | [ggpubr](https://github.com/kassambara/ggpubr) | 1249 | 179 | R | 221 | 'ggplot2' Based Publication Ready Plots | 2026-07-01T01:15:20Z |
| 66 | [r-source](https://github.com/wch/r-source) | 1233 | 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. | 2026-06-29T14:30:51Z |
| 67 | [statistics-for-data-scientists](https://github.com/andrewgbruce/statistics-for-data-scientists) | 1226 | 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](https://github.com/daattali/advanced-shiny) | 1218 | 379 | R | 0 | 🤹 Shiny tips & tricks for improving your apps and solving common problems | 2025-12-21T05:49:16Z |
| 69 | [swirl](https://github.com/swirldev/swirl) | 1215 | 598 | R | 308 | :cyclone: Learn R, in R. | 2023-10-27T18:00:31Z |
| 70 | [clusterProfiler](https://github.com/YuLab-SMU/clusterProfiler) | 1212 | 268 | R | 365 | :bar_chart: A universal enrichment tool for interpreting omics data | 2026-06-24T05:23:58Z |
| 71 | [tidytext](https://github.com/juliasilge/tidytext) | 1201 | 182 | R | 8 | Text mining using tidy tools :sparkles::page_facing_up::sparkles: | 2026-06-27T21:29:30Z |
| 72 | [gtsummary](https://github.com/ddsjoberg/gtsummary) | 1200 | 149 | R | 19 | Presentation-Ready Data Summary and Analytic Result Tables | 2026-06-30T20:24:49Z |
| 73 | [forecast](https://github.com/robjhyndman/forecast) | 1169 | 338 | R | 5 | Forecasting Functions for Time Series and Linear Models | 2026-06-28T05:31:20Z |
| 74 | [R](https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/R) | 1160 | 353 | R | 0 | Collection of various algorithms implemented in R. | 2026-06-12T17:55:05Z |
| 75 | [easystats](https://github.com/easystats/easystats) | 1155 | 87 | R | 37 | :milky_way: The R easystats-project | 2026-06-22T00:13:07Z |
| 76 | [renv](https://github.com/rstudio/renv) | 1155 | 165 | R | 219 | renv: Project environments for R. | 2026-07-01T03:58:06Z |
| 77 | [fasteR](https://github.com/matloff/fasteR) | 1152 | 191 | R | 10 | Fast Lane to Learning R! | 2026-01-03T03:37:28Z |
| 78 | [performance](https://github.com/easystats/performance) | 1148 | 104 | R | 99 | :muscle: Models' quality and performance metrics (R2, ICC, LOO, AIC, BF, ...) | 2026-07-01T00:43:12Z |
| 79 | [tinytex](https://github.com/rstudio/tinytex) | 1137 | 127 | R | 25 | A lightweight, cross-platform, portable, and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution based on TeX Live | 2026-06-16T15:57:32Z |
| 80 | [ggraph](https://github.com/thomasp85/ggraph) | 1115 | 114 | R | 49 | Grammar of Graph Graphics | 2025-08-25T06:42:17Z |
| 81 | [targets](https://github.com/ropensci/targets) | 1084 | 83 | R | 1 | Function-oriented Make-like declarative workflows for R | 2026-05-13T17:53:48Z |
| 82 | [rstan](https://github.com/stan-dev/rstan) | 1079 | 268 | R | 345 | RStan, the R interface to Stan | 2026-06-23T16:13:30Z |
| 83 | [mlr3](https://github.com/mlr-org/mlr3) | 1069 | 98 | R | 20 | mlr3: Machine Learning in R - next generation | 2026-06-24T08:09:00Z |
| 84 | [paletteer](https://github.com/EmilHvitfeldt/paletteer) | 1039 | 53 | R | 4 | 🎨🎨🎨 Collection of most color palettes in a single R package | 2026-01-08T06:13:55Z |
| 85 | [pointblank](https://github.com/rstudio/pointblank) | 1038 | 59 | R | 109 | Data quality assessment and metadata reporting for data frames and database tables | 2026-05-10T16:23:33Z |
| 86 | [readr](https://github.com/tidyverse/readr) | 1033 | 294 | R | 91 | Read flat files (csv, tsv, fwf) into R | 2026-04-10T16:35:05Z |
| 87 | [circlize](https://github.com/jokergoo/circlize) | 1020 | 149 | R | 66 | Circular visualization in R  | 2023-11-11T08:34:17Z |
| 88 | [future](https://github.com/futureverse/future) | 1014 | 92 | R | 79 | :rocket: R package: future: Unified Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone | 2026-06-06T19:22:48Z |
| 89 | [palmerpenguins](https://github.com/allisonhorst/palmerpenguins) | 1013 | 252 | R | 15 | A great intro dataset for data exploration & visualization (alternative to iris). | 2024-09-19T22:20:38Z |
| 90 | [gptstudio](https://github.com/MichelNivard/gptstudio) | 989 | 117 | R | 10 | GPT RStudio addins that enable GPT assisted coding, writing & analysis | 2026-01-03T18:15:49Z |
| 91 | [httr](https://github.com/r-lib/httr) | 980 | 1961 | R | 8 | httr: a friendly http package for R | 2026-02-13T21:44:33Z |
| 92 | [magrittr](https://github.com/tidyverse/magrittr) | 971 | 161 | R | 22 | Improve the readability of R code with the pipe | 2026-04-05T05:42:58Z |
| 93 | [sparklyr](https://github.com/sparklyr/sparklyr) | 970 | 308 | R | 350 | R interface for Apache Spark | 2026-07-01T02:21:06Z |
| 94 | [box](https://github.com/klmr/box) | 968 | 49 | R | 64 | Write reusable, composable and modular R code | 2026-05-29T23:15:38Z |
| 95 | [generativeart](https://github.com/cutterkom/generativeart) | 964 | 162 | R | 5 | Create Generative Art with R | 2022-04-27T07:53:49Z |
| 96 | [ggforce](https://github.com/thomasp85/ggforce) | 953 | 110 | R | 68 | Accelerating ggplot2 | 2025-09-15T19:27:31Z |
| 97 | [MoRad](https://github.com/hyu020/MoRad) | 952 | 68 | R | 0 | None | 2025-10-04T02:30:50Z |
| 98 | [r-pkgs](https://github.com/hadley/r-pkgs) | 947 | 647 | R | 34 | Building R packages | 2026-06-30T08:25:02Z |
| 99 | [see](https://github.com/easystats/see) | 946 | 47 | R | 29 | :art: Visualisation toolbox for beautiful and publication-ready figures | 2026-07-01T00:35:32Z |
| 100 | [golem](https://github.com/ThinkR-open/golem) | 943 | 138 | R | 21 | A Framework for Building Robust Shiny Apps  | 2026-06-17T13:48:58Z |