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June 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

June 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

Update: 2025-07-30
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In June, one hundred twenty-three new packages made it to CRAN. Here are my Top 40 picks in twenty-one categories: AI, Chess, Computational Methods, Data, Decision Analysis, Ecology, Epidemiology, Finance, Genomics, Linguistics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medical Statistics, Music Theory, Networks, Programming, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization.






AI


statlingua v0.1.0: Provides functions to transform complex statistical output into straightforward, understandable, and context-aware natural language descriptions using Large Language Models (LLMs). It works with OpenAI, Google AI Studio, and Anthropic. See the vignette for examples.


vitals v0.1.0: Provides a port of Inspect, a widely adopted Python framework for large language model evaluation that supports prompt engineering, tool usage, multi-turn dialog, and model graded evaluations. It is specifically aimed at ellmer users who want to measure the effectiveness of their LLM based products. There are two vignettes: Getting Started and Writing Evals.




Chess


chess2plyrs v0.3.0: Implements a chess program based on the Minimax chess engine which allows users to create games, read and write FEN and more. See the vignette for examples.


Plot of chess board




Computational Methods


tvdenoising v1.0.0: Implements total variation denoising which can be used to approximate a given sequence of noisy observations by a piecewise constant sequence with adaptively-chosen break points. See Johnson (2013) for background and README for an example.


Plot of function with approximating points


wideRhino v1.0.2: Provides functions to construct a canonical Variate Analysis biplot via the Generalized Singular Value Decomposition for cases when the number of samples is less than the number of variables. For more information on biplots, see Gower et al. (2011), for a discussion of the generalized singular value decomposition, see Edelman & Wang (2020), and see README for examples.


CVA biplot




Data


avilistr v0.0.1: Provides easy access to the AviList Global Avian Checklist, the first unified global bird taxonomy that harmonizes differences between International Ornithological Committee, Clements, and BirdLife checklists. See the vignette to get started.


Barplot of top 10 species-rich bird orders


ecoteach v0.1.0: A collection of curated educational datasets for teaching ecology and agriculture concepts. Includes data on wildlife monitoring, plant treatments, and ecological observations with documentation and examples for educational use. All datasets are derived from published scientific studies. See the vignette.


jpinfect v0.1.2: Provides functions to download and post process the infectious disease case data from the Japan Institute for Health Security. See the vignette to get started.


LBDiscover v0.1.0: Provides a suite of tools for literature-based discovery in biomedical research, including functions for retrieving scientific articles from PubMed and other NCBI databases, extracting biomedical entities (diseases, drugs, genes, etc.), building co-occurrence networks, and applying various discovery models. See README to get started.


Rdatasets v0.0.1: Provides functions to search, download, and view documentation for thousands of datasets from R packages included in the Rdatasets archive. Datasets are available in both CSV and Parquet formats. See README to get started.




Decision Analysis


RMCDA v0.3: Im

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June 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

June 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

Joseph Rickert