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30 Mar 2026

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{rtemis} 1.0.0: Machine Learning and Visualization
{rcloner} 0.0.1: Interface to ‘rclone’ Cloud Storage Utility
{animejs} 0.1.0: R Bindings to the ‘Anime.js’ Animation Library
{ggauto} 0.0.1: Automatically Create and Style ‘ggplot2’ Charts
{reproresearchR} 0.1.1: Companion Package for ‘Reproducible Research Using R’
{ksformat} 0.3.5: ‘SAS’-Style ‘PROC FORMAT’ for R
{ggforestplotR} 0.1.0: Publication-Ready Forest Plots with ‘ggplot2’
{blends} 0.1.0: Blend Colour Palettes
{tabstats} 0.1.0: A Lightweight Toolkit for Displaying Customizable Tables
{subtools} 1.1.0: Read and Manipulate Video Subtitles
{stopmotion} 0.1.0: Build Stop Motion Animations from Image Sequences
{pizzarr} 0.1.1: Slice into ‘Zarr’ Arrays
{HeatmapR} 1.1.0: Create Heatmaps Using Base Graphics
{jlview} 0.1.0: Zero-Copy Julia to R Array Bridge via ALTREP
{YangHuiMagic} 1.1: A Generalization of Yang Hui’s Magic Squares
{theRefdate} 1.0.0: Simple and Fast Date Manipulation on Character Strings in Format ‘DD.MM.YYYY’

GitHub or Bitbucket

deckroadmap: Give your slides a sense of direction - An R package for adding PowerPoint-style roadmap footers to Quarto and R Markdown Reveal.js slides.
{ggtypst} 0.1.0: Render any rich text and high-quality math expressions in ggplot2 easily, powered by Typst. (on Reddit)
Ebbinghaus illusion Benchmark for LLMs: A flexible R & Python SDK for generating variants of the Ebbinghaus illusion. On top of the full source code, you will find in this repo links to a Kaggle notebook with free LLm examples, as well as a Shiny app to generate a reproducible dataset of Ebbinghaus illusion stimuli.

Updated Packages

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{Unicode} 17.0.0-1: Unicode Data and Utilities - diffify
{vistime} 1.3.0: Pretty Timelines in R - diffify
{tinytex} 0.59: Helper Functions to Install and Maintain TeX Live, and Compile LaTeX Documents - diffify
{tinyplot} 0.6.1: Lightweight Extension of the Base R Graphics System - diffify
{swagger} 5.32.1: Dynamically Generates Documentation from a ‘Swagger’ Compliant API - diffify
{sourcetools} 0.1.7-2: Tools for Reading, Tokenizing and Parsing R Code - diffify
{RcppRoll} 0.3.2: Efficient Rolling / Windowed Operations - diffify
{nlme} 3.1-169: Linear and Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models - diffify
{letsRept} 1.1.1: An Interface to the Reptile Database - diffify
{bittermelon} 2.3.1: Bitmap Tools - diffify
{ggdiceplot} 1.2.0: DicePlot Visualization for ‘ggplot2’ - diffify
{shinyEditor} 1.0.0: ‘Ace’ and ‘Monaco’ Editors Bindings for ‘shiny’ Application - diffify
{LLMing} 1.2.1: Large Language Model (LLM) Tools for Psychological Text Analysis - diffify
{rpart} 4.1.27: Recursive Partitioning and Regression Trees - diffify
{vbracket} 1.4.0: Custom Legends with Statistical Comparison Brackets - diffify
{terra} 1.9-11: Spatial Data Analysis - diffify
{rmarkdown} 2.31: Dynamic Documents for R - diffify
{lessR} 4.5.3: Less Code with More Comprehensive Results - diffify
{tau} 0.0-28: Text Analysis Utilities - diffify
{sqlhelper} 0.2.2: Easier ‘SQL’ Integration - diffify
{mlbench} 2.1-8: Machine Learning Benchmark Problems - diffify
{synthesisr} 0.4.1: Import, Assemble, and Deduplicate Bibliographic Datasets - diffify
{rworkflows} 1.0.11: Test, Document, Containerise, and Deploy R Packages - diffify
{archivist} 2.3.9: Tools for Storing, Restoring and Searching for R Objects - diffify
{pkgdiff} 1.0.2: Identifies Package Differences - diffify
{ggautomap} 0.4.0: Create Maps from a Column of Place Names - diffify
{WhatIf} 1.5-11: Software for Evaluating Counterfactuals - diffify
{rollama} 0.3.0: Communicate with ‘Ollama’ to Run Large Language Models Locally - diffify
{arrow} 23.0.1.2: Integration to ‘Apache’ ‘Arrow’ - diffify
{rcheology} 4.5.3.0: Data on Base and Recommended Packages for Current and Previous Versions of R - diffify
{renv} 1.2.0: Project Environments - diffify
{gdalraster} 2.5.0: Bindings to ‘GDAL’ - diffify
{tuber} 1.4.0: Client for the YouTube API - diffify

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