January 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

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, Epidemiology, Finance, Genetics, Genomics, High Performance Computing, Mathematics, Machine Learning, Medical Application, Networks, Statistics, Time…