Who is #1 in Most-starred R repositories?

cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends is #1 with 7,190 stars, as of 2026-10-29. tidyverse/ggplot2 is #2.

How often is this ranking updated?

It refreshes on a fixed schedule from GitHub. The latest snapshot was captured on 2026-10-29.

Where does the data come from?

GitHub. Star counts from the GitHub API. The raw payload for every refresh is stored unchanged so any number can be traced back.

Software and developer tools · ranked by Stars

Most-starred R repositories

Name: Most-starred R repositories — snapshot history
Creator: Top10Earth

50 ranked · updated 2026-10-29

Number onecxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends7,190 stars

Ranking by Stars
#	Name	Stars	Change
1	cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends	7,190 stars	new
2	tidyverse/ggplot2	7,022 stars	new
3	qinwf/awesome-R	6,534 stars	new
4	rstudio/shiny	5,707 stars	new
5	hadley/r4ds	5,188 stars	new
6	tidyverse/dplyr	5,079 stars	new
7	swirldev/swirl_courses	4,621 stars	new
8	briatte/awesome-network-analysis	4,136 stars	new
9	rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2022	4,106 stars	new
10	Rdatatable/data.table	3,927 stars	new

Show positions 11–50

11	johnmyleswhite/ML_for_Hackers	3,731 stars	new
12	twitter/AnomalyDetection	3,605 stars	new
13	rstudio/rmarkdown	3,068 stars	new
14	satijalab/seurat	2,811 stars	new
15	plotly/plotly.R	2,685 stars	new
16	thomasp85/patchwork	2,618 stars	new
17	r-lib/devtools	2,526 stars	new
18	yihui/knitr	2,470 stars	new
19	rmcelreath/rethinking	2,431 stars	new
20	rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2023	2,387 stars	new
21	IndrajeetPatil/ggstatsplot	2,206 stars	new
22	tylermorganwall/rayshader	2,183 stars	new
23	genomicsclass/labs	2,179 stars	new
24	karthik/wesanderson	2,166 stars	new
25	rstudio/gt	2,162 stars	new
26	ujjwalkarn/DataScienceR	2,153 stars	new
27	toddwschneider/nyc-taxi-data	2,083 stars	new
28	thomasp85/gganimate	1,984 stars	new
29	szilard/benchm-ml	1,896 stars	new
30	dreamRs/esquisse	1,866 stars	new
31	google/CausalImpact	1,865 stars	new
32	rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2024	1,835 stars	new
33	tidyverse/tidyverse	1,808 stars	new
34	geocompx/geocompr	1,795 stars	new
35	rstudio/blogdown	1,792 stars	new
36	rstudio/reticulate	1,766 stars	new
37	rich-iannone/DiagrammeR	1,750 stars	new
38	zonination/investing	1,743 stars	new
39	EmilHvitfeldt/r-color-palettes	1,727 stars	new
40	nanxstats/awesome-shiny-extensions	1,694 stars	new
41	mlr-org/mlr	1,686 stars	new
42	topepo/caret	1,668 stars	new
43	bbc/bbplot	1,644 stars	new
44	hadley/stats337	1,610 stars	new
45	jokergoo/ComplexHeatmap	1,561 stars	new
46	tidymodels/broom	1,527 stars	new
47	tidyverse/rvest	1,526 stars	new
48	fossasia/tofsims	1,487 stars	new
49	sfirke/janitor	1,462 stars	new
50	r-spatial/sf	1,453 stars	new

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History

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Positions of today's top 10 across every published snapshot.

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About this ranking

Most-starred R repositories, explained

Most-starred R repositories is a live ranking of the top 50 entries in software and developer tools by Stars, built from public data published by GitHub. It was last refreshed on 2026-10-29. This is the first published snapshot; from the next refresh onwards the page will also show movers, new entries and a rank history chart.

cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends currently holds #1 with 7,190 stars. tidyverse/ggplot2 is second with 7,022 stars. qinwf/awesome-R completes the top three with 6,534 stars. Together the top three account for about 39% of the combined top-10 total, which gives a quick sense of how concentrated this ranking is.

How it is measured: Total GitHub stars on repositories whose primary language GitHub detects as R, from the GitHub search API sorted by stars. Caveat: Stars measure popularity among GitHub users, not code quality or usage. Star counts from the GitHub API. The full top 50 is on this page, with positions 11 to 50 one click away, and each entry links to its own profile showing every ranking it appears in.

Use this page to check who is number one right now, compare any two entries head to head, or test yourself with the quiz, which asks you to name all ten in three minutes. Year-end archives are available for 2026, freezing the ranking as it stood at the close of each year. Top10Earth never estimates or edits a value: each number is fetched from its source, hashed, stored and ranked by software, then checked by a quality gate before it is published. If a refresh fails the gate, the previous snapshot stays live and the problem is reviewed by a person.

Frequently asked questions

Who is #1 in Most-starred R repositories?: cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends is #1 with 7,190 stars, as of 2026-10-29. tidyverse/ggplot2 is #2.
How is Most-starred R repositories ranked?: By Stars. Total GitHub stars on repositories whose primary language GitHub detects as R, from the GitHub search API sorted by stars.
How often is this ranking updated?: It refreshes on a fixed schedule from GitHub. The latest snapshot was captured on 2026-10-29.
Where does the data come from?: GitHub. Star counts from the GitHub API. The raw payload for every refresh is stored unchanged so any number can be traced back.