April 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

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, Economics, Environmental Studies, Epidemiology, Finance, Functional Data Analysis, Health Technology Assessment, Machine Learning, Medical Statistics,…