One hundred seventy-nine new packages made it to CRAN in May. Here are my “Top 40” picks in twelve categories: Computational Methods, Data, Ecology, Epidemiology, Finance, Machine Learning, Networks, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization.
Computational Methods
graDiEnt v1.0.1: Implements the derivative-free, optim-style Stochastic Quasi-Gradient Differential Evolution optimization algorithm published in <a href=“https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/ …