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 Crantastic's votes by a scaling factor.

Rank	CRAN package	Users	AvgVote	NumVotes	Crantastic Rank	Inside-R Votes
1	ggplot2	77	4.0	0	8	2018
2	data.table	63	3.9	49	13	1581
3	plyr	55	3.7	32	25	1338
4	reshape	33	3.6	16	35	772
5	lme4	24	3.7	8	34	363
6	Sim.DiffProc	23	4.3	30	10	825
7	Sim.DiffProcGUI	23	4.3	30	11	825
8	Hmisc	21	3.9	11	26	422
9	lattice	20	4.7	4	5	259
10	RODBC	17	4.2	11	20	520
11	xtable	16	4.2	8	23	321
12	randomForest	15	4.3	10	12	246
13	RColorBrewer	15	3.8	5	38	265
14	stringr	13	3.6	5	49	180
15	sp	12	4.2	6	21	308
16	reshape2	12	3.9	7	33	141
17	RSQLite	12	3.2	3	112	155
18	foreach	11	4.3	9	17	316
19	foreign	11	3.9	4	37	193
20	car	11	3.5	1	58	22
21	survival	11	3.2	3	114	155
22	RTextTools	11	3.0	2	120	26
23	quantmod	10	4.3	9	14	335
24	xts	10	4.0	9	27	425
25	rgl	10	3.7	3	44	115
26	XML	10	3.7	3	45	222
27	Matrix	10	3.4	3	82	60
28	cacheSweave	9	4.6	3	4	116
29	nlme	9	4.5	1	6	74
30	twitteR	9	4.2	6	22	189
31	zoo	9	3.8	4	40	162
32	maxent	9	3.5	2	60	26
33	xlsReadWrite	8	4.2	5	24	247
34	tikzDevice	8	3.9	6	36	311
35	latticeExtra	8	4.0	2	41	81
36	ape	8	3.6	4	50	158
37	maptools	8	3.5	3	61	80
38	survey	8	3.5	4	81	141
39	RMySQL	8	3.3	3	83	155
40	vegan	8	3.0	3	123	86
41	igraph	7	4.5	1	7	1
42	caret	7	4.0	5	28	88
43	PerformanceAnalytics	7	3.8	5	39	198
44	rpart	7	3.8	2	42	120
45	multicore	7	3.8	4	43	177
46	MCMCglmm	7	3.7	3	46	119
47	rgdal	7	3.6	4	53	158
48	boot	7	3.5	5	59	180
49	Rcmdr	7	3.2	5	122	301
50	Rcpp	7	3.0	2	126	40
51	Zelig	6	3.7	3	48	88
52	testthat	6	3.5	3	62	38
53	cluster	6	3.3	3	84	56
54	reporttools	6	3.3	3	85	85
55	mgcv	6	3.5	4	109	103
56	animation	6	3.1	5	115	90
57	coin	5	3.3	3	87	84
58	odfWeave	5	3.3	3	88	107
59	psych	5	3.2	3	117	103
60	snow	5	3.2	3	118	222
61	plotrix	5	3.0	2	127	81
62	plm	4	4.3	3	15	115
63	rjags	4	4.0	1	29	1
64	tm	4	3.7	3	51	34
65	RJSONIO	4	3.7	4	52	57
66	JGR	4	3.5	1	63	74
67	xlsx	4	3.8	4	64	78
68	roxygen	4	3.4	4	89	208
69	unknownR	4	3.4	3	90	0
70	pls	4	3.3	3	91	84
71	lubridate	4	3.3	3	92	27
72	glmnet	4	3.2	3	119	47
73	RUnit	4	3.0	2	128	81
74	multcomp	4	3.0	1	129	74
75	nnet	4	3.0	5	130	45
76	fields	3	5.0	0	1	148
77	heavy	3	4.3	3	16	74
78	XLConnect	3	4.3	2	30	54
79	Defaults	3	3.7	4	47	155
80	ez	3	3.7	3	54	157
81	apcluster	3	3.7	3	55	34
82	geoR	3	3.6	4	57	103
83	bitops	3	3.5	1	65	74
84	qtl	3	3.5	3	66	32
85	seqinr	3	3.5	3	67	87
86	spatstat	3	3.5	3	68	72
87	Deducer	3	3.3	3	93	157
88	R2WinBUGS	3	3.3	3	94	84
89	fitdistrplus	3	3.2	3	124	63
90	raster	3	3.2	3	125	87
91	DPpackage	3	3.0	2	131	56
92	emdbook	3	3.0	2	132	81
93	AER	3	3.0	1	133	74
94	rv	2	4.2	3	18	153
95	minpack.lm	2	4.3	3	19	153
96	arules	2	4.0	1	31	1
97	logging	2	3.7	3	56	157
98	Rserve	2	3.5	1	69	26
99	bigmemory	2	3.5	3	70	34
100	iterators	2	3.5	3	71	85
101	sendmailR	2	3.5	3	72	157
102	spdep	2	3.5	1	73	74
103	spgwr	2	3.5	1	74	74
104	Cairo	2	3.4	3	95	155
105	SemiPar	2	3.3	3	96	84
106	caTools	2	3.4	3	97	45
107	gRain	2	3.3	3	98	84
108	hwriter	2	3.4	2	99	52
109	picante	2	3.3	3	100	84
110	pedigreemm	2	3.3	3	101	85
111	genalg	2	3.3	3	102	84
112	heatmap.plus	2	3.3	3	103	84
113	spam	2	3.3	3	104	31
114	vars	2	3.3	3	105	84
115	laercio	2	3.3	3	106	84
116	FNN	2	3.3	3	107	27
117	mritc	2	3.3	3	108	26
118	qcc	2	3.2	2	113	118
119	tree	2	3.2	3	121	47
120	analogue	2	3.0	2	134	12
121	faraway	2	3.0	2	135	81
122	klaR	2	3.0	2	136	13
123	mclust	2	3.0	2	137	13
124	RgoogleMaps	2	3.0	1	138	75
125	MHadaptive	2	3.0	2	139	11
126	LinearizedSVR	2	3.0	2	140	14
127	RecordLinkage	1	5.0	1	2	0
128	sybil	1	5.0	1	3	3
129	ggmap	1	4.0	1	32	0
130	clim.pact	1	3.5	0	75	15
131	mlbench	1	3.5	1	76	74
132	onemap	1	3.4	5	86	140
133	FactoClass	1	3.4	3	110	89
134	sampleSelection	1	3.3	3	111	26
135	RSvgDevice	1	3.2	2	116	93
136	Rcapture	1	3.0	2	141	33
137	SoDA	1	3.0	2	142	29
138	SparseM	1	3.0	2	143	26
139	aaMI	1	3.0	1	144	20
140	adehabitat	1	3.0	2	145	81
141	bnlearn	1	3.0	2	146	81
142	ca	1	3.0	2	147	26
143	copula	1	3.0	2	148	27
144	debug	1	3.0	2	149	81
145	gregmisc	1	3.0	2	150	81
146	GEVcdn	0	4.5	1	9	0
147	deal	0	3.5	1	77	74
148	ROracle	0	3.5	1	78	74
149	abn	0	3.5	1	79	3
150	int64	0	3.5	3	80	25

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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