This will be my final R Views post offering my totally idiosyncratic selection of 40 CRAN packages. It has been a good run that began in August 2016. I would like to thank all of you who followed these posts. Your readership kept me going. I hope that the “Top 40” posts were ...

One hundred fifty-six new packages made it to CRAN in April. Here are my “Top 40” selections in twelve categories: Computational Methods, Data, Ecology, Economics, Genomics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Utilities, and Visualization. Computational Methods clarabel v0.4.1: Implements Clarabel, a versatile interior point solver that solves linear programs, quadratic ...

Accounting debkeepr v0.1.1: Provides tools to analyze historical, non-decimal currencies and value systems that use tripartite or tetrapartite systems such as pounds and shillings in the context of double-entry bookkeeping. See the Getting Started guide and the vignettes Analysis of Richard Dafforne’s Journal and Ledger and Transactions in Richard ...

Clinical research studies and healthcare economics studies are frequently concerned with assessing the prognosis for survival in circumstances where patients suffer from a disease that progresses from state to state. Standard survival model...

Vidisha Vachharajani works in the EdTech industry, where she enjoys developing data-driven strategy solutions for learners. She has been an R user for over 15 years. As a data professional, I have enjoyed learning and using multiple tools for my workflows. For me, everything used to begin and end with R. ...

One hundred seventy-three new packages made it to CRAN in February. Here are my “Top 40” selections in thirteen categories: Computational Methods, Data, Ecology, Economics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Pharma, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Computational Methods dcTensor v1.0.1: Implements semi-binary and semi-ternary matrix methods based on non-negative matrix ...

One hundred sixty-five new packages made it to CRAN in January. Here are my “Top 40” selections in thirteen categories: Actuarial Statistics, Archaeology, Computational Methods, Ecology, Genomics, Mathematics, Medicine, Machine Learning, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, Visualization. Actuarial Statistics actuaRE v0.1.3: Provides functions to fit random effects models using either the ...

One hundred sixteen new packages stuck to CRAN in December 2022. Here are my “Top 40” selections in thirteen categories: Computational Methods, Data, Ecology, Epidemiology, Genomics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Networks, Signal Processing, Statistics, Utilities, and Visualization. Computational Methods bgw v0.1.0: Implements the BGW algorithm described by Bunch, Gay and Welsch (1993) which ...

A collage of various conference logos, including posit conf, NICAR, Shiny Conf, Shiny in Production, and more. Happy January! Below, we share a list of upcoming conferences that either focus on the R programming language or showcase its use in the field. If we have missed your conference, please leave ...

One hundred sixty-seven new packages made it to CRAN in November: Here are my “Top 40” selections in fourteen categories: Climate Modeling: Computational Methods, Data, Ecology, Epidemiology, Genomics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Networks, Pharma, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Climate Modeling gtfs2emis v0.1.0: Implements a bottom up model to estimate ...

One hundred seventy-four new packages made it to CRAN in October. Here are my “Top 40” selections in sixteen categories: Astronomy, Biology, Business, Computational Methods, Data, Ecology, Finance, Genomics, Mathematics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Pharma, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, Visualization. Astronomy skylight v1.1: Provides a function to calculate sky illuminance values (in ...

Nicolas Nguyen works in the Supply Chain industry, in the area of Demand and Supply Planning, S&OP and Analytics, where he enjoys developing solutions using R and Shiny. Outside his job, he teaches data visualization in R at the Engineering School EIGSI and Business School Excelia in the city ...

Two hundred and two new packages made it to CRAN in September. Here are my “Top 40” selections in fourteen categories: Computational Methods, Data, Genomics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Pharmacology, Psychology, Science, Social Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Computational Methods kimfilter v1.0.0: Provides an Rcpp implementation of the multivariate ...

Nicolas Nguyen works in the Supply Chain industry, in the area of Demand and Supply Planning, S&OP and Analytics, where he enjoys developing solutions using R and Shiny. Outside his job, he teaches data visualization in R at the Engineering School EIGSI and Business School Excelia in the city ...

Dr. Maria Prokofieva is a member of the R / Business working group which is promoting the use of R in accounting, auditing, and actuarial work. She is also a professor at the Victoria University Business School in Australia and works with C...

One hundred ninety-four new package made it to CRAN in August. Here are my “Top 40” picks in thirteen categories: “Computational Methods, Data, Epidemiology, Genomics, Insurance, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Pharmaceutical Applications, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Computational Methods brassica v1.0.1: Executes BASIC programs from the 1970s for historical and ...

When developing the promotion plan for the many exciting talks at rstudio::conf(2022), we thought of using the rtweet package by Michael W. Kearney to create a Twitter bot to automate Tweet announcements when a presentation was about to sta...

The Cox Proportional Hazards model has so dominated survival analysis over the past forty years that I imagine quite a few people who regularly analyze survival data might assume that the Cox model, along with the Kaplan-Meier estimator and...

Dr. Maria Prokofieva is a member of the R / Business working group which is promoting the use of R in accounting, auditing, and actuarial work. She is also a professor at the Victoria University Business School in Australia and works wi...

Ninety-four new packages stuck to CRAN in July. Here are my “Top 40” selections in thirteen categories: Climate Modeling, Computational Methods, Data, Ecology, Genomics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Networks, Proteomics, Statistics, Utilities, and Visualization. Climate Modeling climetrics v1.0-5: Provides a framework that facilitates the spatio-temporal analysis of climate dynamics through ...