March 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

2026-04-28

Hey! Try out the RMET (“the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test”).

2026-04-27

Should French pollsters be using Mister P?

2026-04-27

Little useless-useful R functions – Desk plant simulator

2026-04-27

{talib}: Technical Analysis using R

2026-04-27

Preliminary Support for Typst in knitr

2026-04-27

A few weeks ago I added preliminary support for Typst to knitr. The way it works is simple: if your file has the extension .Rtyp, knitr will recognize it as a Typst document, knit it, and produce a .typ output file. The chunk syntax follows the same Markdown-style fenced code block convention: {r}</code> to start a chunk and <code> to end it, with inline R expressions written as r expr. A minimal example (hello.Rtyp):

<c …