R Weekly 2026-W24 R Version Update, Refactoring, Your Tests Lie to You
This week’s release was curated by Batool Almarzouq, with help from the R Weekly team members and contributors.
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Tutorials
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One tidy workflow for WHO GHO and UN SDG data in R: introducing DSIR
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A Multi-Agent DDQN Strategic Audit Engine for Silver Markets using Keras/TensorFlow
Resources
New Packages
📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦
CRAN
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{nlmixr2targets} 0.1.0: Targets for ‘nlmixr2’ Pipelines
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{GeoDensityR} 0.1.2: Generate Density Rasters from Polygon and Census Data
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{ensembleML} 0.2.5: Unified Interface for Ensemble Machine Learning Methods
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{shinyds} 0.2.2: ‘Shiny’ Bindings for Designsystemet Components
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{MSN} 0.1.0: Multivariate Survival Data with Network Structures
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{ggcircular} 0.1.0: A ‘ggplot2’ Extension for Circular and Directional Data
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{tamd} 1.0.2: Transcendental Algorithm for Mixtures of Distributions
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{polish} 0.3.1: Polishing Content for ‘Word’ and ‘PowerPoint’
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{twscrapeR} 0.1.3: Twitter/X Scraping via Python’s ‘twscrape’ Library
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{opencltools} 0.8.1: ‘OpenCL’ Tools for R Package Developers
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{AIGRA} 0.1.2: Agentic Item Generation, Review, and Analysis
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{HOME} 0.1.0: Harmonized Orphanhood Mortality Estimation
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{admixr2} 0.1.0: Aggregate Data Modelling
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{TestNet} 1.0: A Method for Inferring Microbial Networks with FDR Control
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{DENSaftertransform} 0.1: Estimating Density after Logarithmic or Power Transformation of Data
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{db2pq} 0.0.4: Export Database Tables to ‘Parquet’
GitHub or Bitbucket or GitLab
Updated Packages
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{airr} 1.6.1: AIRR Data Representation Reference Library - diffify
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{mvtnorm} 1.4-1: Multivariate Normal and t Distributions - diffify
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{multivarious} 0.3.2: Extensible Data Structures for Multivariate Analysis - diffify
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{smriti} 0.2.0: Automated Routing Engine for Longitudinal Missing Data - diffify
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{tablet} 0.8.1: Tabulate Descriptive Statistics in Multiple Formats - diffify
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{lang} 0.1.1: Translates R Help Documentation using Large Language Models - diffify
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{ggpicrust2} 2.5.17: Make ‘PICRUSt2’ Output Analysis and Visualization Easier - diffify
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{eyeris} 3.1.0: Flexible, Extensible, & Reproducible Pupillometry Preprocessing - diffify
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{Transform} 1.1: Statistical Transformations - diffify
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{Rrepest} 1.6.13: An Analyzer of International Large Scale Assessments in Education - diffify
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{NNS} 12.1: Nonlinear Nonparametric Statistics - diffify
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{scModels} 1.0.5: Fitting Discrete Distribution Models to Count Data - diffify
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{primer} 1.2.1: Functions and Data for the Book, a Primer of Ecology with R - diffify
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{qcluster} 2.0.1: Clustering via Quadratic Scoring - diffify
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{goodpractice} 1.1.0: Advice on R Package Building - diffify
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{ggforestplotR} 0.2.2: Publication-Ready Forest Plots with ‘ggplot2’ - diffify
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{CompositionalClust} 1.3: Clustering with Compositional Data - diffify
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{callr} 3.8.0: Call R from R - diffify
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{AIGRA} 0.1.2: Agentic Item Generation, Review, and Analysis - diffify
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