May 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

Three hundred twenty-three of the new packages were submitted to CRAN in May. Here are my Top 40 picks in eighteen categories: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Methods, Ecology, Education, Finance, Functional Data Analysis, Genomics, Machine Learning, Medical Statistics, Meta Analysis, Probability, Process Control, Psychometrics, Statistics, Surveys, Time Series, Utilities, and…