April 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

May 29, 2026 | Joseph Rickert

Three hundred seventy-six of the new packages submitted to CRAN in April were still there in mid-May. Here are my Top 40 picks in twenty-three categories: Actuarial Analysis, Archaeology, Biology, Causal Inference, Computational Methods, Ecology...
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EuroBioC2026 Tidyomics Hackathon

May 28, 2026 | Stefano Mangiola

Join us in Turku The Tidyomics community is organising a hackathon during the pre-conference programme of EuroBioC2026 in Turku, Finland. The hackathon will take place on June 1-2, 2026, ahead of the main EuroBioC2026 conference on June 3-5, 20...
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Ghost in the Shell Script

May 28, 2026 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

I’ve been using Unix and Linux systems for nearly 20 years. When I found myself with a Windows laptop for a while I felt lost and quickly installed Windows Subsystem for Linux. And yet the number of commands I know and use regularly is surprisingly short: cd, ls, rm, pwd, ...
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rOpenSci News Digest, May 2026

May 27, 2026 | rOpenSci

Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! rOpenSci HQ 15 Years of rOpenSci, and we’re just getting started 🎉 This y...
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Zero Sum Problems

May 21, 2026 | R on kieranhealy.org

Over at Daring Fireball, John Gruber makes a passing observation about the Apple Sports app: I’ve got some gripes about certain specific aspects of Apple Sports. Like, where does one even start to explain how much is wrong with their zero-sum v... [Read more...]
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