Two Hundred and two new packages made it to CRAN in January. Several were in applications areas that don’t show up very often, and a few of these made it into my January “Top 40” picks. My selections are listed below in thirteen categories: Agriculture, Computational Methods, Data, Engineering, Finance, Genomics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Utilities, and Visualization. Slightly expanding the number of categories helps to emphasize the various application areas, but makes it more difficult to classify packages which could fit in multiple …