Is it possible to see the top X or so packages?

[annahuynhly]

First, this is a cool package to easily judge between various R packages. Thanks for making this!

I was playing around this package for fun and realized something I considered shocking:

library("packageRank")
> packageRank("tidyverse")
        date   package count         rank percentile
1 2025-10-20 tidyverse 48359 25 of 23,965       99.9

Generally, I considered tidyverse to be one of the most popular packages.

I peeked at all of the functions in this package and I couldn't find if there was a function that lists top 10 or so packages to see which beats tidyverse; is it even possible to get this information explicitly?

[lindbrook]

Thanks!

Try passing a vector of ranks to queryRank(). For example, queryRank(1:15) for the top 15; queryRank(8:15) for the 8th through the 15th ranked packages.

I believe that the 'tidyverse' library is a shortcut for tidyverse packages. But because of package dependencies (packages used in other packages) and because some users just download individual packages, individual tidyverse packages typically outrank the 'tidyverse' package. So, as you saw, on 2025-10-20, 'tidyverse' came in 25th place.

> queryRank(1:30)
       package count rank nominal.rank percentile
1      ggplot2 79475    1            1      100.0
2        dplyr 69528    2            2      100.0
3        rlang 68569    3            3      100.0
4       tibble 65525    4            4      100.0
5          cli 65099    5            5      100.0
6    rmarkdown 65055    6            6      100.0
7     magrittr 57852    7            7      100.0
8    lifecycle 57112    8            8      100.0
9        purrr 56763    9            9      100.0
10      scales 55403   10           10      100.0
11        glue 55181   11           11      100.0
12      readxl 54701   12           12       99.9
13       vctrs 53554   13           13       99.9
14       readr 52165   14           14       99.9
15    jsonlite 51653   15           15       99.9
16       tidyr 50930   16           16       99.9
17      pillar 50615   17           17       99.9
18          R6 50363   18           18       99.9
19 systemfonts 50210   19           19       99.9
20      gtable 50195   20           20       99.9
21        curl 50020   21           21       99.9
22       withr 49962   22           22       99.9
23        xml2 49064   23           23       99.9
24     stringr 48462   24           24       99.9
25   tidyverse 48359   25           25       99.9
26        xfun 48065   26           26       99.9
27        ragg 47969   27           27       99.9
28 textshaping 47952   28           28       99.9
29       vroom 47523   29           29       99.9
30        Rcpp 47147   30           30       99.9

[annahuynhly]

Perfeeecct. I'm going to talk about this package with my students! :)