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Leaderboard for 4 October 2026
The biggest R projects on GitHub, the ones gaining stars fastest right now, and the same leaderboard a year ago. We have recorded it every day since December 2018.
Most starred today
- 1 cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends Friends don't let friends make certain types of data visualization - What are they and why are they bad. 7.1k +3 / 7d
- 2 tidyverse/ggplot2 An implementation of the Grammar of Graphics in R 7.0k +2 / 7d
- 3 qinwf/awesome-R A curated list of awesome R packages, frameworks and software. 6.5k
- 4 rstudio/shiny Easy interactive web applications with R 5.7k
- 5 hadley/r4ds R for data science: a book 5.2k +6 / 7d
- 6 tidyverse/dplyr dplyr: A grammar of data manipulation 5.1k +2 / 7d
- 7 swirldev/swirl_courses :mortar_board: A collection of interactive courses for the swirl R package. 4.6k +3 / 7d
- 8 briatte/awesome-network-analysis A curated list of awesome network analysis resources. 4.1k +5 / 7d
- 9 rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2022 Statistical Rethinking course winter 2022 4.1k
- 10 Rdatatable/data.table R's data.table package extends data.frame: 3.9k +2 / 7d
- 11 johnmyleswhite/ML_for_Hackers Code accompanying the book "Machine Learning for Hackers" 3.7k
- 12 twitter/AnomalyDetection Anomaly Detection with R 3.6k
- 13 rstudio/rmarkdown Dynamic Documents for R 3.1k
- 14 satijalab/seurat R toolkit for single cell genomics 2.8k
- 15 plotly/plotly.R An interactive graphing library for R 2.7k
- 16 thomasp85/patchwork The Composer of ggplots 2.6k
- 17 r-lib/devtools Tools to make an R developer's life easier 2.5k +1 / 7d
- 18 yihui/knitr A general-purpose tool for dynamic report generation in R 2.5k
- 19 rmcelreath/rethinking Statistical Rethinking course and book package 2.4k +1 / 7d
- 20 rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2023 Statistical Rethinking Course for Jan-Mar 2023 2.4k +1 / 7d
- 21 IndrajeetPatil/ggstatsplot Enhancing {ggplot2} plots with statistical analysis 📊📣 2.2k
- 22 tylermorganwall/rayshader R Package for 2D and 3D mapping and data visualization 2.2k +5 / 7d
- 23 genomicsclass/labs Rmd source files for the HarvardX series PH525x 2.2k +1 / 7d
- 24 rstudio/gt Easily generate information-rich, publication-quality tables from R 2.2k
- 25 karthik/wesanderson A Wes Anderson color palette for R 2.2k +2 / 7d
A year ago today
The same leaderboard on 4 October 2025. Today's top ten were all already there.
- 1 cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends 6.9k
- 2 tidyverse/ggplot2 6.8k
- 3 qinwf/awesome-R 6.3k
- 4 rstudio/shiny 5.5k
- 5 tidyverse/dplyr 4.9k
- 6 hadley/r4ds 4.9k
- 7 swirldev/swirl_courses 4.5k
- 8 rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2022 4.1k
- 9 briatte/awesome-network-analysis 3.8k
- 10 Rdatatable/data.table 3.8k
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