Windows ARM64 comes to R-universe

August 5, 2026 | rOpenSci

Attentive package authors already noticed something new in their r-universe page over the past few weeks: R-universe has quietly started building and checking packages for Windows ARM64. https://ropensci.r-universe.dev/pdftools#checktable https://cra... [Read more...]

R GUI Comparison Update

August 4, 2026 | Bob Muenchen

Graphical user interfaces for the R language are easy to use and getting more powerful all the time. Here is my updated comparison of jamovi, JASP, BlueSky Statistics (free & Pro), Rattle, RKWard, R-Instat, R AnalyticFlow, and R Commander. With so many detailed reviews of Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for R ...
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Centering a map projection on the mapped region

August 4, 2026 | A.M. Barbosa

The PROJ format for defining Coordinate Reference Systems (CRS) is becoming deprecated, as PROJ strings cannot accurately store modern datum transformations, coordinate epoch information, or complex axis order rules. However, that format is much easier and more practical for humans … Continue reading →
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JAGS 5.0.0 is released

August 2, 2026 | Martyn

After an extended beta period, JAGS 5.0.0 is now available. The release is more of a process than a single event, but we have started by uploading the source tarball and the Windows installer to SourceForge. The macOS installer will … Continue reading →
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Analyzing Financial Trends: Kalman Filtering for Gold vs Bitcoin

August 2, 2026 | Selcuk Disci

In their paper “A Synchronized Multi‑IMU Wearable System for Tracking of Joint‑Angles in Sports Motion Analysis” (arXiv:2607.26027v1), Samarasekera and colleagues set out to solve a very practical problem: how to reliably measure joint angles in dynamic sports movements using wearable IMUs. Their goal was to design a ...
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US oil stocks by @ellis2013nz

July 31, 2026 | free range statistics - R

Like many people I have been keeping track of the slow-burn fuel crisis arising from the war in Iran, its possible expansion to the Red Sea, and exacerbation from the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. The latter seems to have reached a stage wher...
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ntroduction to All Things About bpvars, the R package for Forecasting with Bayesian Panel Vector Autoregressions workshop

July 29, 2026 | Dariia Mykhailyshyna

Join our workshop on Introduction to All Things About bpvars, the R package for Forecasting with Bayesian Panel Vector Autoregressions,  which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series!  Here’s some more info:  Title: All Things About bpvars, the R package for Forecasting with Bayesian Panel Vector Autoregressions ... [Read more...]

June 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

July 26, 2026 | Joseph Rickert

Four hundred twelve new packages were submitted to CRAN in June. Here are my Top 40 picks in nineteen categories: Bioarchaeology, Biology, Climate Studies, Computational Methods, Ecology, Epidemiology, Finance, Functional Data Analysis, Machine ...
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