One hundred seventy-four new packages made it to CRAN in October. Here are my “Top 40” selections in sixteen categories: Astronomy, Biology, Business, Computational Methods, Data, Ecology, Finance, Genomics, Mathematics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Pharma, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, Visualization.
Astronomy
skylight v1.1: Provides a function to calculate sky illuminance values (in lux) for both the sun and moon. The model is a verbatim translation of the code by <a …