February 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

Two hundred and fifty-five of the new packages submitted to CRAN in February were still there in mid-March. Here are my Top 40 picks in seventeen categories: Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Buddhism, Climate Science, Computational Methods, Data, Ecology, Epidemiology, Genomics, Machine Learning, Medical Applications, Physics, Statistics, Surveys, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization.…