One hundred ninety-four new package made it to CRAN in August. Here are my “Top 40” picks in thirteen categories: “Computational Methods, Data, Epidemiology, Genomics, Insurance, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Pharmaceutical Applications, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization.

Computational Methods

brassica v1.0.1: Executes BASIC programs from the 1970s for historical and educational purposes. This enables famous examples of early …