March 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages
Hey! Try out the RMET (“the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test”).
Should French pollsters be using Mister P?
Little useless-useful R functions – Desk plant simulator
{talib}: Technical Analysis using R
{talib} is a new R package built on TA-Lib, which is now available on CRAN. The R-package is targeted at individuals and, perhaps, institutions who, in some form or the other, interacts with the financial markets using technical analysis. The library is built with minimal dependencies for long-term stability and …
Continue reading: {talib}: Technical Analysis using …Preliminary Support for Typst in knitr
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: to end it, with inline R expressions written as {r}</code> to start a chunk and <code>. A minimal example (r exprhello.Rtyp):
<c …