This package list is compiled and used by unknownR to help users
easily and quickly discover useful packages rated by other users. By
default the top 30 are included in unknownR's list (plus R-core
recommended packages included in R).

Data is scraped from Crantastic and Inside-R; see footnote.
Note that Inside-R appears to multiply the number of votes by a scaling factor.

CRAN package	avgvote	numvotes	users	rank	Crantastic Rank	Inside-R Votes
ggplot2	4.0	41	69	1	13	1784
plyr	3.7	29	53	2	28	1179
data.table	4.0	44	49	3	19	1342
reshape	3.6	15	32	4	60	697
lme4	3.6	7	23	5	61	328
Sim.DiffProc	4.4	27	21	6	6	676
Sim.DiffProcGUI	4.4	27	21	7	7	676
Hmisc	3.8	9	20	8	57	360
lattice	4.7	0	19	9	4	239
RODBC	4.1	10	16	10	26	465
RColorBrewer	3.8	5	14	11	62	240
randomForest	4.3	8	13	12	15	197
xtable	4.0	6	13	13	31	285
stringr	4.2	3	12	14	25	155
RSQLite	3.2	3	12	15	106	140
sp	4.1	5	11	16	29	278
foreign	3.9	4	11	17	58	173
RTextTools	3.0	2	11	18	113	16
reshape2	4.4	5	10	19	14	111
XML	3.7	3	10	20	67	207
car	3.5	1	10	21	77	17
xts	4.3	7	9	22	16	380
quantmod	4.2	7	9	23	23	295
foreach	4.2	8	9	24	27	271
zoo	3.8	4	9	25	63	142
rgl	3.7	3	9	26	68	100
maxent	3.5	2	9	27	78	16
Matrix	3.4	3	9	28	96	45
survival	3.2	3	9	29	111	140
vegan	4.3	2	8	30	5	71
cacheSweave	4.3	2	8	31	20	101
twitteR	4.1	5	8	32	30	159
latticeExtra	4.0	2	8	33	64	71
maptools	3.5	3	8	34	79	62
survey	3.5	4	8	35	95	121
RMySQL	3.3	3	8	36	97	140
ape	4.2	2	7	37	21	138
tikzDevice	3.9	5	7	38	59	282
rpart	3.8	2	7	39	65	110
MCMCglmm	3.7	3	7	40	69	104
Rcmdr	3.2	5	7	41	115	276
Rcpp	3.0	2	7	42	119	30
boot	4.0	3	6	43	17	155
PerformanceAnalytics	4.3	3	6	44	18	173
rgdal	4.2	2	6	45	22	138
xlsReadWrite	4.0	4	6	46	32	222
multicore	3.8	4	6	47	66	157
Zelig	3.7	3	6	48	70	73
mgcv	3.2	3	6	49	116	88
cluster	4.0	1	5	50	33	41
animation	4.0	1	5	51	34	69
reporttools	4.0	1	5	52	35	70
testthat	3.5	3	5	53	80	23
odfWeave	3.3	3	5	54	99	92
psych	3.2	3	5	55	109	88
snow	3.2	3	5	56	110	207
plotrix	3.0	2	5	57	120	71
caret	4.0	1	4	58	36	69
coin	4.0	1	4	59	37	69
tm	3.7	3	4	60	71	19
RJSONIO	3.7	4	4	61	72	37
JGR	3.5	1	4	62	81	69
roxygen	3.4	4	4	63	100	188
glmnet	3.2	3	4	64	112	32
RUnit	3.0	2	4	65	121	71
multcomp	3.0	1	4	66	122	69
fields	5.0	0	3	67	1	138
plm	4.0	2	3	68	38	100
lubridate	4.0	1	3	69	39	14
Defaults	3.7	3	3	70	73	140
ez	3.7	3	3	71	74	142
apcluster	3.7	3	3	72	75	16
bitops	3.5	1	3	73	82	69
qtl	3.5	3	3	74	83	17
seqinr	3.5	3	3	75	84	72
spatstat	3.5	3	3	76	85	57
Deducer	3.3	3	3	77	101	142
fitdistrplus	3.2	3	3	78	117	48
raster	3.2	3	3	79	118	72
DPpackage	3.0	2	3	80	123	46
emdbook	3.0	2	3	81	124	71
AER	3.0	1	3	82	125	69
unknownR	3.0	2	3	83	126	0
iterators	4.8	2	2	84	2	70
geoR	4.2	2	2	85	24	83
pls	4.0	1	2	86	40	69
heavy	4.0	2	2	87	41	59
R2WinBUGS	4.0	1	2	88	42	69
logging	3.7	3	2	89	76	142
Rserve	3.5	1	2	90	86	21
bigmemory	3.5	3	2	91	87	19
sendmailR	3.5	3	2	92	88	142
spdep	3.5	1	2	93	89	69
spgwr	3.5	1	2	94	90	69
Cairo	3.4	3	2	95	102	140
caTools	3.4	3	2	96	103	30
xlsx	3.5	3	2	97	104	59
qcc	3.2	2	2	98	107	108
tree	3.2	3	2	99	114	32
analogue	3.0	2	2	100	127	2
faraway	3.0	2	2	101	128	71
klaR	3.0	2	2	102	129	3
mclust	3.0	2	2	103	130	3
hwriter	3.0	2	2	104	131	42
RgoogleMaps	3.0	1	2	105	132	70
MHadaptive	3.0	2	2	106	133	1
LinearizedSVR	3.0	2	2	107	134	4
memoise	4.5	1	1	108	8	69
SensoMineR	4.3	2	1	109	9	138
geometry	4.5	1	1	110	10	69
spam	4.0	1	1	111	43	16
vars	4.0	1	1	112	44	69
gRain	4.0	1	1	113	45	69
picante	4.0	1	1	114	46	69
FNN	4.0	1	1	115	47	14
mritc	4.0	1	1	116	48	13
SemiPar	4.0	1	1	117	49	69
genalg	4.0	1	1	118	50	69
heatmap.plus	4.0	1	1	119	51	69
minpack.lm	4.0	2	1	120	52	138
rv	3.7	2	1	121	53	138
laercio	4.0	1	1	122	54	69
pedigreemm	4.0	1	1	123	55	70
clim.pact	3.5	0	1	124	91	10
mlbench	3.5	1	1	125	92	69
onemap	3.4	5	1	126	98	115
FactoClass	3.4	3	1	127	105	74
RSvgDevice	3.2	2	1	128	108	83
Rcapture	3.0	2	1	129	135	23
SoDA	3.0	2	1	130	136	19
SparseM	3.0	2	1	131	137	16
aaMI	3.0	1	1	132	138	15
adehabitat	3.0	2	1	133	139	71
bnlearn	3.0	2	1	134	140	71
ca	3.0	2	1	135	141	16
copula	3.0	2	1	136	142	17
debug	3.0	2	1	137	143	71
gregmisc	3.0	2	1	138	144	71
ipred	3.0	2	1	139	145	16
matlab	3.0	2	1	140	146	71
misc3d	3.0	2	1	141	147	71
strucchange	3.0	2	1	142	148	71
tensor	3.0	2	1	143	149	12
IBrokers	3.0	2	1	144	150	71
int64	4.8	2	0	145	3	10
gplots	4.5	1	0	146	11	69
dvfBm	4.5	1	0	147	12	70
sampleSelection	4.0	1	0	148	56	11
deal	3.5	1	0	149	93	69
ROracle	3.5	1	0	150	94	69

Crantastic's ranking seems inappropriate for unknownR's needs:

• Packages with just one 5* vote (and no other votes) are ranked first because they have the maximum vote of 5.000.
• ggplot2 is ranked 41st (when writing this), which doesn't seem correct given it has the most votes and the most users, by far.
• Some packages on page 2 and 3 have many votes and users, but are harder to find.

So, the data is scraped and we rank by the number of users, to address these issues.
No claim is made that this is the best method, just that it is better than Crantastic's rank.
This adjustment has been suggested to Hadley. If popcon is changed, this page can be removed.
The R function that generates this page, is here.

The content and data from Crantastic and Inside-R is available under the CC Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
The derived data on this page is also available under the CC Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

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