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An astounding 412 (!) #RStats packages made their way to CRAN last month, and @revojoe.bsky.social picked out forty that he thinks you should know about. Check them out on R Works: rworks.dev/posts/june-2...
June 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages – R Works
A personal, idiosyncratic, unabashedly biased, time-constrained attempt to capture the depth and breadth of the new packages submitted to CRAN in a single month.
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323 (!) new #RStats packages were submitted to CRAN in May. Here are @revojoe.bsky.social's Top 40 picks in eighteen categories: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Methods, Ecology, and more. Read here: rworks.dev/posts/may-20...
May 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages – R Works
A personal, idiosyncratic, unabashedly biased, time-constrained attempt to capture the depth and breadth of the new packages submitted to CRAN in a single month.
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CRAN continues to be the most accessible repository for statistical knowledge on the planet, and the number of new packages being accepted by CRAN is growing faster than ever. But, is the #RStats community benefiting from this new growth? @revojoe.bsky.social explores: rworks.dev/posts/too-ma...
New CRAN Packages: signal or noise? – R Works
CRAN continues to be the most accessible repository for statistical knowledge on the planet, and the number of new packages being accepted by CRAN is growing faster than ever. But, is the R community ...
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An incredible 376 #RStats packages made it on to CRAN in April. Do you want to know which had the most interesting applications, thorough documentation, innovative functions? No need to ask Claude, @revojoe.bsky.social already looked through them all meticulously for you: rworks.dev/posts/april-...
April 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages – R Works
An idiosyncratic, unabashedly biased, time-constrained attempt to capture the depth and breadth of the new packages submitted to CRAN in a single month entirely without the use of AI: clearly unsustai...
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Top 40 New CRAN #RStats Packages: an idiosyncratic, unabashedly biased, time-constrained attempt to capture the depth and breadth of the new packages submitted to CRAN in a single month entirely without the use of AI: clearly unsustainable, but maybe entertaining and somewhat useful.
March 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages – R Works
An idiosyncratic, unabashedly biased, time-constrained attempt to capture the depth and breadth of the new packages submitted to CRAN in a single month entirely without the use of AI: clearly unsustai...
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We often see Healthcare Economics Models from the practitioner's perspective, but what if we view them as a practitioner, instead? @revojoe.bsky.social explores the continuous-time Markov chain behind this new paradigm in #RStats: rworks.dev/posts/oscc-p...
Stage II OSCC — Health Economics Model – R Works
This post presents a proof of concept for constructing Healthcare Economics Models from a patient’s perspective. Taking oral squamous cell carcinoma as a case study, it models the health states that a...
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I wrote a post on Claude Skills for #RStats users, and I got asked if they work with Posit Assistant for RStudio. Absolutely! You can also add custom Skills by putting them in your skills directory, or asking the Assistant to create one. I wrote a bit about it here: rworks.dev/posts/skills...
Can I use Skills with Posit Assistant for the RStudio IDE? – R Works
Posit Assistant does indeed support Skills.
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Discover @revojoe.bsky.social's picks for top #RStats CRAN pkgs released in February, including ✅ quallmer v0.3.0: Tools for AI-assisted qualitative data coding 🏥 nhanesdata v4.1.0: Access to NHANES data 📏 ggInterval v0.2.4: Visualize intervals w/ ggplot2 Read the post: rworks.dev/posts/Feb-20...
February 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages – R Works
An attempt to capture the depth and breadth of what’s new on CRAN.
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I rounded up a few Claude Skills for #RStats users. Huge thanks to the creators who developed them. They share Skills for everything from tidyverse code to brand.yml files to learning while using AI. Hope the list is useful, and please let me know what I missed! 🧡 rworks.dev/posts/claude...
A Few Claude Skills for R Users – R Works
The community has come together to create some great Claude Skills that you can try out today.
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The kuzco package from @frankiethull.bsky.social made the January 2026 Top 40 CRAN #RStats packages by @revojoe.bsky.social! Congratulations, Frank, on such a great package ❤️🦙 rworks.dev/posts/januar...
January 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages – R Works
An attempt to capture the depth and breadth of what’s new on CRAN.
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Ambassador Frank Hull@frankiethull.bsky.social · 6mo ago🚨 kuzco is now on CRAN 🚨 cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
196!! #RStats packages hit CRAN in December 2025. Interested in a curated selection? @revojoe.bsky.social has you covered with the Top 40 New CRAN Packages. rworks.dev/posts/decemb...
December 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages – R Works
An attempt to capture the depth and breadth of what’s new on CRAN.
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Take a fresh look at ROC curves with this mathematical take from @revojoe.bsky.social. By using ideas from differential geometry, like curvature and arc length, it offers new insights into a familiar tool. rworks.dev/posts/roc-an... #RStats
Smoothed ROC Curves, Calculus and Curvature – R Works
This post proposes smoothing ROC curves to make them into objects that can be studied with calculus. It shows how taking derivatives of the ROC curve enables conducting likelihood ratio tests and expl...
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Every month, @revojoe.bsky.social reviews and summarized 40 #RStats packages that landed on CRAN, based on their topics, documentation, applicability, and more! Check out the picks from October: rworks.dev/posts/octobe...
October 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages – R Works
Here are my picks for the best of the two hundred and four new packages that landed on CRAN in October. Packages are organized into fifteen categories: Data, Decision Analysis, Ecology, Econometrics, ...
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You may have heard of ROC curves, but what exactly are they? Learn the the basics of ROC curves using simple #RStats code and intuitive explanations. "ROC Curves in Two Lines of Code": rworks.dev/posts/Horton...
ROC Curves in Two Lines of Code – R Works
This post explains the basics of ROC curves using simple code and intuitive explanations.
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I wrote a lil post on the amazing work that @ginareynolds.bsky.social does championing ggplot2 extension developers and teaching others to build their own! The post features the Scrollytelling Quarto extension and the group's cute #RStats hex 🐱: rworks.dev/posts/ggplot...
An Introduction to Writing Your Own ggplot2 Geoms – R Works
The ggextenders club provides inspiration and resources for those venturing into the exciting world of creating custom ggplot2 extensions.
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It's time for the Top 40 New #RStats Packages on CRAN for September 2025! Learn about new packages for data, statistics, finance, and more. These great packages come complete with great documentation, images, references. Read the post: rworks.dev/posts/septem...
September 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages – R Works
Here are my picks of the best of the two hundred forty new packages that landed on CRAN in September, organized into thirteen categories: Computational Methods, Data, Decision Analysis, Ecology, Epide...
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Be Mindful of the Time: Estimating a Continuous-Time Markov Chain from Incomplete Data In his latest post, @revojoe.bsky.social shows how data can implicitly define time scales and why that matters when modeling real-world processes. #RStats Read here: rworks.dev/posts/5-stat...
Be Mindful of the Time – R Works
In a previous post, A Simple Bayesian Multi-state Survival Model for a Clinical Trial, I described a textbook example comparing the effectiveness of asthma treatments by fitting a discrete-time Markov...
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August 2025's Top 40 picks are out, highlighting excellent #RStats packages from Differential Privacy to Toxicology to Causal Inference. This marks 1 year of Top 40 posts since we started R Works! 🎉 Check out the post here: rworks.dev/posts/august...
August 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages – R Works
Here are my picks for the best from the ninety-seven new packages that landed on CRAN in August, organized in eighteen categories: Causal Inference, Data, Differential Privacy, Ecology, Environmental ...
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A Note on the Dirichlet Distribution by @revojoe.bsky.social 🔗 rworks.dev/posts/note-o... #RStats
A Note on the Dirichlet Distribution – R Works
In this post, I explore some properties of the Dirichlet distribution and illustrate the behavior of the symmetric Dirichlet distribution as alpha, the concentration parameter, varies. Understanding t...
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The July 2025 Top 40 New CRAN #RStats Packages blog post is now out! Check out great picks from @revojoe.bsky.social in 13 categories, including Causal Inference, Ecology, Mathematics, Medical Statistics, Pharma, Statistics, and Visualization. rworks.dev/posts/july-2...
July 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages – R Works
The CRAN new package Top 40 - Here are my picks for the best new packages to land on CRAN in July, organized in thirteen categories: Causal Inference, Computational Methods, Data, Ecology, Epidemiolog...
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On the R Works blog, @ivelasq3.bsky.social shares a short blog post on getting started with the ANES 2024 data in #RStats! rworks.dev/posts/anes20...
ANES 2024 is Out! How to Analyze the Data with R – R Works
Explore the newly released ANES 2024 survey data in R with {survey} and {srvyr}.
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This month's Top 40 New CRAN packages includes ... some really awesome visualizations! Check out @revojoe.bsky.social's picks in 21 categories, including AI, chess, epidemiology, music theory, and more. Blog post: rworks.dev/posts/june-2... #RStats
In our latest post, Vidisha Vachharajani discusses the fundamental driver of successful AI agent use: prompting, or instructing an #LLM to perform a task with input text. See how to go from vague directions to specific #RStats guidance in #RStudio using GitHub Copilot. rworks.dev/posts/health...
Health Technology notes: Copilot tips and guidance – R Works
In this post, we walk the reader through the fundamental driver of successfully using AI agents – prompting. Prompting is the method of instructing an LLM to perform a task by carefully designing an i...
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Vidisha Vachharajani continues the "Tidyverse with GitHub Copilot for Healthcare Analytics" series! Part 2 evaluates the effectiveness of healthcare delivery and impact of patient-level variables on downstream outcomes while exploring the #RStats + AI! Read the post: rworks.dev/posts/health...
Tidyverse with GitHub Copilot for Healthcare Analytics – Part 2 – R Works
In this second installment, we analyze a complex dataset of diabetes patient encounters with 100,000+ rows and over 50 columns and dive deeper to evaluate the effectiveness of healthcare delivery and ...
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May was a big month for #RStats! 186 new packages landed on CRAN. We've got the top 40 highlighted on R Works, featuring an image from the GencoDymo2 package (human and mouse genomes!). Check it out here: rworks.dev/posts/may-20...
May 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages – R Works
An attempt to capture the depth and breadth of what’s new on CRAN. - One Hundred seventy-six new packages made it to CRAN in May. Here are my Top 40 picks in eighteen categories: Climate Science, Comp...
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Markov Chains can model patient outcomes. This post walks through calculating transition probabilities and using absorbing states to estimate long-term health outcomes in #RStats. rworks.dev/posts/simple...
A Simple Bayesian Multi-state Survival Model for a Clinical Trial – R Works
This post shows how to use the elementary theory of discrete time Markov Chains to construct a multi-state model of patients progressing through various health states in a randomized clinical trial co...
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Using GitHub Copilot to analyze complex healthcare datasets comes with opportunities and challenges. Vidisha Vachharajani walks through an example and shares reflections in our latest blog post: rworks.dev/posts/health... #RStats
Tidyverse with GitHub Copilot for Healthcare Analytics – Part 1 – R Works
In this post, the first in a series of two focused on healthcare applications, I will introduce a complex healthcare data set and outline the problems I propose to solve using tidyverse and GitHub Cop...
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We're delighted by the depth and breadth of #RStats packages released in CRAN! @revojoe.bsky.social shares April's Top 40 picks, including Olajoke Oladipo's cheetahR for super-fast table gen and Russ Conte's ClassificationEnsembles for building classification models. rworks.dev/posts/april-...
April 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages – R Works
An attempt to capture the depth and breadth of what’s new on CRAN. Here are my Top 40 picks in twenty-two categories: Archaeology, Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Chemistry, Climate Science, Data, E...
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In a previous post, we presented an #RStats rjags version of a Bayesian model from Evidence Synthesis for Decision Making in Healthcare by Welton et al. This second post explores cost-effectiveness frameworks in healthcare using deterministic and stochastic models. rworks.dev/posts/ESDM-2/
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis – R Works
In a previous post, we presented an rjags version of a Bayesian model from the textbook: Evidence Synthesis for Decision Making in Healthcare by Welton et al. (2012). This post continues the work of p...
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