40 new R CRAN packages
A February roundup cataloged the top 40 new CRAN packages — covering AI, biology, climate science and fresh tooling that can accelerate analytics workflows for health data. It’s a quick source for new libraries to test in diabetes‑focused analyses. (r-bloggers.com)
Joseph Rickert’s monthly roundup counted 255 new CRAN submissions from February that remained on CRAN in mid‑March and was published March 26, 2026. (rworks.dev) Rickert selected 40 standout packages and organized them into 17 categories ranging from Artificial Intelligence to Visualization. (rworks.dev) The AI pick quallmer (v0.3.0) is billed as a qualitative‑coding toolbox that supports LLM providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Azure and local models via Ollama and adds codebook workflows, inter‑coder reliability metrics and audit‑trail functions. (cran.rstudio.com) BioGSP (v1.0.0) brings Graph Signal Processing to biological spatial data with a Spectral Graph Wavelet Transform implementation, multi‑scale analysis tools and vignette examples tied to the SGWT literature. (rdrr.io) RuHere (v1.0.1) implements a six‑stage workflow to flag spatial errors in biological occurrence data, explicitly validating records against expert‑curated range maps and documenting sampling‑bias exploration across five vignettes. (cran.r-project.org) tidyextreme (v1.0.0) provides a tidyverse‑friendly toolkit to compute ETCCDI climate extreme indices (e.g., Rx1day, CDD, TX90p), was published to CRAN on February 4, 2026, and includes vignettes and prebuilt binaries for recent R versions. (cran.r-project.org)
