R Weekly 2026-W46 Mizu, MCP, Modelling

09 Nov 2026

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This week’s release was curated by Jonathan Carroll, with help from the R Weekly team members and contributors.

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R Users

R in Organizations

Roche and Appsilon Build on Their Collaboration to Support teal’s Continued Development

Tutorials

How to Run R Code Online (No RStudio, No Install) - Run R 4.6 in the browser with webR: built-in datasets, a linear model, reading stdin and fixing common R errors.
R market data API: OHLCV to xts with httr2 - Cursor pagination and OHLCV-to-xts conversion in R.

Resources

Understanding Odds Ratios and Risk Ratios

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

{ggindex} 0.1.1: marks selected points of a ggplot2 plot with numbered markers and explains the numbers in a legend, as on an annotated map.

CRAN

{mizu} 0.1.0: Thread-Speed Async and Parallel R over Shared Memory
{s3pe} 0.3.0: A Small, Dependable Client for S3 Object Stores
{testmath} 0.1.0: Unit Tests for Mathematical Properties
{zutoml} 0.1.0: Read and Write ‘TOML’ Documents
{gpmapr} 1.0.0: Query the ‘OpenGWAS’ Genotype-Phenotype Map
{vulnr} 0.1.0: Scan R Packages for Vulnerabilities
{surviveR} 1.0.0: Tidyverse-Based Reliability and Survival Data Visualization Tool
{stlpro} 0.1.0: STL with Extended Capabilities
{apastats2} 1.1.0: Statistical Results in APA Style
{ggindex} 0.1.1: Numbered Focus Points for ‘ggplot2’ Plots
{rplatypus} 0.2.1: Computer Vision for Medical Imaging
{shiny.element} 0.3.1: ‘Element Plus’ Components for ‘shiny’
{quartodown} 0.1.0: Package Websites Built Entirely with ‘Quarto’
{glmheaders} 1.0.1-2: ‘OpenGL Mathematics’ ‘C++’ Headers
{SexSeek} 0.1.0: Estimate Genetic Sex from Expression Counts
{sas2r} 0.5.8: Translate ‘SAS’ Programs to R with Dependency-Aware Migration
{superstats} 1.0: Super Statistics
{relm} 0.6.2: Local Large Language Models as Base-R Objects

Updated Packages

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myman 0.13.0 on CRAN: Another wave!
{stability} 0.6.0: Stability Analysis of Genotype by Environment Interaction (GEI) - diffify
{Seurat} 5.6.0: Tools for Single Cell Genomics - diffify
{charr} 0.2.0: String Processing Reimagined for ‘ALTREP’ Strings - diffify
{charport} 0.2.0: ALTREP String Interoperability - diffify
{dataspice} 1.2.1: Create Lightweight Schema.org Descriptions of Data - diffify
{tsutils} 0.9.5: Time Series Exploration, Modelling and Forecasting - diffify
{tidyterra} 1.3.1: ‘tidyverse’ Methods and ‘ggplot2’ Helpers for ‘terra’ Objects - diffify
{beepr} 2.0.1: Easily Play Notification Sounds on any Platform - diffify
{rcosmo} 1.1.6: Cosmic Microwave Background Data Analysis - diffify
{plotthis} 0.14.1: High-Level Plotting Built Upon ‘ggplot2’ and Other Plotting Packages - diffify
{oddsapiio} 0.2.0: Client for the ‘Odds-API.io’ Sports Betting Odds API - diffify
{funcml} 0.9.6: Functional Machine Learning Framework - diffify
{rkriging} 1.1.0: Kriging Modeling - diffify
{cppally} 1.2.1: A ‘C++20’ API for R - diffify
{rcxl} 0.1.2: Read xlsx Files with a Native Parser - diffify
{mRpostman} 3.0.1: An IMAP Client for R - diffify
{lorax} 0.2.0: Speak for the Trees - diffify
{RaceID} 0.4.3: Identification of Cell Types, Inference of Lineage Trees, and Prediction of Noise Dynamics from Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data - diffify
{gtfstools} 2.0.1: General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) Editing and Analysing Tools - diffify
{RZooRoH} 0.4.3: Partitioning of Individual Autozygosity into Multiple Homozygous-by-Descent Classes - diffify
{liteq} 1.2.0: Lightweight Portable Message Queue Using ‘SQLite’ - diffify
{brotli} 1.4.0: A Compression Format Optimized for the Web - diffify
{otelsdk} 0.3.0: R SDK and Exporters for OpenTelemetry - diffify
{tuber} 3.0.0: Client for the YouTube Data API - diffify
{tidyweather} 0.3.4: Analysis the Weather Data for Agriculture - diffify
{ggtangle} 0.1.5: Draw Network with Data - diffify
{tidyEmoji} 0.6.0: Discover, Count, Categorise, Score, Translate and Relate Emoji in Text - diffify
{omicsTools} 2.0.0: Omics Data Processing Toolbox - diffify
{PheValuator} 2.2.19: Rapid Phenotype Evaluation - diffify
{ddplot} 0.2.0: Create D3 Based SVG Graphics - diffify
{encharter} 0.13: Enhanced Office Open XML Charting for ‘openxlsx2’ - diffify
{mizu} 0.1.0: Thread-Speed ‘Async’ and Parallel R over Shared Memory - diffify
{OmopIndices} 0.3.0: Patient-Level Indices from the OMOP Common Data Model - diffify
{hdf5lib} 2.2.0.1: Headers and Static Libraries for ‘HDF5’ - diffify
{Rmpi} 0.7-4.1: Interface (Wrapper) to MPI (Message-Passing Interface) - diffify
{mlr3fda} 0.8.0: Extending ‘mlr3’ to Functional Data Analysis - diffify
{bizdays} 1.0.18: Business Days Calculations and Utilities - diffify
{ds4psy} 1.4.0: Data Science for Psychologists - diffify
{datawizard} 1.5.0: Easy Data Wrangling and Statistical Transformations - diffify
{ggforestplotR} 0.6.0: Publication-Ready Forest Plots with ‘ggplot2’ - diffify

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