January 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

February 26, 2026 | Joseph Rickert

Two hundred forty-one of the new packages submitted to CRAN in January were still there in mid-February. Here are my Top 40 picks in nineteen categories: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Methods, Data, Dynamical Systems, Ecology, Economics...
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pharmaverse Pillars

February 25, 2026 | pharmaverse council

Hi pharmaverse community! Big news from the council: after our late‑2025 strategy session, we’ve formalized the pharmaverse pillars for 2026 — a friendly framework to give clearer direction, focus effort, and help members plug in where they c...
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{pmrm} joins openpharma and reaches CRAN

February 23, 2026 | Will Landau

We are delighted to announce that {pmrm} has joined the openpharma GitHub org and is now available on CRAN. This package implements frequentist progression models for repeated measures (PMRMs), a class of continuous-time nonlinear mixed-effects ...
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Football Betting Model in R (Step-by-Step Guide 2026)

February 22, 2026 | rprogrammingbooks

Related (on this site): Install & Use worldfootballR worldfootballR Guide Sports Analytics with R NFL Analytics with R Tennis Analytics with R Boxing Analytics with R Bayesian Sports Analytics (Book/Product) Contents Setup Get match data Feature engineering Model 1: Poisson goals (baseline) Model 2: Dixon–Coles adjustment (improves low scores) From scorelines ... [Read more...]

Welcome, Nick Masel

February 19, 2026 | pharmaverse council

Hi pharmaverse community, On behalf of the council we are pleased to announce that Nick Masel will be taking over from Sumesh Kalappurakal as the J&J representative on the Pharmaverse Council. Please join us in thanking Sumesh for his lead...
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Quantitative Horse Racing with R: Calibration, Backtesting, and Deployment

February 19, 2026 | rprogrammingbooks

R DuckDB Parquet Calibration Ranking Bayesian Odds TS Backtesting Racing analytics as an inference-and-decision system Thoroughbred flat racing is not a binary classification problem. It is a multi-competitor outcome process with hierarchy (horse / trainer / jockey / track), time dependence (form cycles, market moves), and decision layers (how you act on probabilities). ... [Read more...]

Keeping files organised for publication

February 18, 2026 | Seascapemodels

Getting files ready for publication can be frustrating when you can’t find the right file, or you realize your figures look like 2000s jpeg. Here’s a list of things I wished I’d done (or my students had done) properly earlier in the paper prep p... [Read more...]

Modeling Bitcoin Volatility Through Structural Breaks: A Compositional Perspective

February 17, 2026 | Selcuk Disci

Recent advances in time series modeling have emphasized the importance of structural breaks—abrupt changes in the underlying dynamics of financial or economic data. The paper “Directional-Shift Dirichlet ARMA Models for Compositional Time Series with Structural Break Intervention” (Katz, 2026) introduces a Bayesian framework that captures these breaks using three interpretable ...
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