Having seen one too many tweets touting a list of most-popular R package from 2013, I went searching for some more recent data. This being R, I figured someone would have already come up with code for this — and I was correct.

Tel Aviv University PhD candidate Tal Galili wrote some functions in his installr package that download and read log data, making it trivial to then count up how many downloads there were for each available package.

Note that the log data come from only one of the dozens of server mirrors for CRAN (the Comprehensive R Archive Network) — the mirror run by RStudio, and it’s not certain this mirror is a representative sample of worldwide R users who download from other mirrors.

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