August 2026 in CRAN

Part of Q3 2026 and 2026.

Live, updates daily

232

New packages

204

Updated

Archived

48.8M

Downloads

New packages (60+)

reptiledbr Interface to 'The Reptile Database' Taxon Data	2026-08-01
DMSTAr Dynamic Model for Stormwater Treatment Areas	2026-08-02
Gofpt2 Generalized Goodness-of-Fit Test for Progressive Type-II Censored Data	2026-08-02
TTE Design and Analysis Tools for Target Trial Emulation	2026-08-02
closecity Client for the 'Close' API	2026-08-02
irid Component-Based 'Shiny' UI with Fine-Grained Reactivity	2026-08-02
mutator Mutation Testing	2026-08-02
LongitudinalEvalue Sensitivity Analysis for Unmeasured Confounding in Longitudinal Studies	2026-08-03
ProcessCapabilityR Classical and Generalized Process Capability Indices	2026-08-03
deriva Tidy Drift Detection for Monitored Machine Learning Models	2026-08-03
idiographic Person-Specific (Idiographic) and Heterogeneous Complex Networks	2026-08-03
malp Maximum Agreement Linear Prediction	2026-08-03
mcplite Lightweight Stdio MCP Server for R	2026-08-03
neuralsbi Neural Simulation-Based Inference	2026-08-03
panelTool Build Regularly Spaced Panels from Irregularly Spaced Longitudinal Data	2026-08-03
sigPCA Statistical Significance Testing for Principal Components	2026-08-03
sondage Survey Sampling Algorithms	2026-08-03
tidyprf Tidy Access to Brazilian Federal Highway Police ('PRF') Data	2026-08-03
walking Segments Accelerometry Data into Walking Bouts using Open Source Methods	2026-08-03
BCT Bayesian Context Trees for Discrete Time Series	2026-08-04
BiMaUmisc BiMaU Miscellaneous	2026-08-04
EBASS Expected Value of Information Based Sample Size Calculation	2026-08-04
KernelICA Kernel Independent Component Analysis	2026-08-04
MALDIassist Mathematical Utilities for MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry	2026-08-04
SporeLag Lagged and Moving-Average Exposure Features for Aeroallergen Epidemiology	2026-08-04
brazilmaps Brazilian Maps from Different Geographic Levels	2026-08-04
cardinalfda FDA Safety Tables and Figures	2026-08-04
controlcharts Interactive Plotting for Funnel Plots and Statistical Process Control Charts	2026-08-04
crbcc C R Bytecode Compiler	2026-08-04
dwg2geo Convert Engineering 'DWG' Drawings to Auditable 'GeoJSON'	2026-08-04
ftsspec Spectral Density Estimation and Comparison for Functional Time Series	2026-08-04
inferstat Publication-Ready Inferential Statistics and Visualization	2026-08-04
rKraken 'Kraken API'	2026-08-04
rtreeoflife Access Tree of Life Data Releases	2026-08-04
AdaptHyCensor Generalized Inference and Data Generation for Adaptive Progressive Hybrid Censoring Schemes	2026-08-04
CauMedi Cell Type-Specific Causal Mediation Models for Single-Cell Data	2026-08-04
DOEpro Analysis of Designed Agricultural Experiments	2026-08-04
FinancialInstrument Financial Instrument Modeling Infrastructure	2026-08-04
LSJM Estimate Location-Scale Joint Models	2026-08-04
OutbreakR Epidemiological Tools for Outbreak Investigation and Analysis	2026-08-04
PhysMove Quantifying Animal Movement and Space-Use Patterns with Statistical Physics	2026-08-04
asleep Estimate Sleep from 'Accelerometry' Data	2026-08-04
blockr.session Session Management for 'blockr'	2026-08-04
bluertopo Download and Extract BlueTopo Bathymetry with Terra	2026-08-04
compost Video Compositing via 'FFmpeg'	2026-08-04
fipp Induced Priors in Bayesian Mixture Models	2026-08-04
ggpalettes Curated Colour Palettes and Scales for 'ggplot2'	2026-08-04
gofPHCS Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Complete, Progressively Type-II, Type-I Hybrid, and Type-II Hybrid Censored Data	2026-08-04
jiebaRS Chinese Text Segmentation, POS Tagging, and Keyword Extraction	2026-08-04
lame Longitudinal Additive and Multiplicative Effects Models for Networks	2026-08-04
polyglotSQL SQL Parsing, Analysis and Dialect Translation	2026-08-04
rbcmodel Model Rubisco Carboxylation Rate Across Temperature, CO2, and O2	2026-08-04
zmij Round-Trip-Safe Double-Precision Formatting	2026-08-04
APD Average Proportional Distance	2026-08-05
BorderEffect Detection of Edge Effects in Field Trials via Besag-Kempton Competition	2026-08-05
CompRiskRel Reliability and Competing Risks Analysis under Hybrid Censoring	2026-08-05
DendroFlux Processing and Analyzing Dendrometer and Sap Flux Data	2026-08-05
LugsailGR Generalized Gelman-Rubin Diagnostic and Effective Sample Size for MCMC	2026-08-05
MYIS 'Moreau-Yosida' Importance Sampling for Statistical Inference	2026-08-05
SampleSizeR Sample Size Calculations for Epidemiological, Clinical, and Diagnostic Studies	2026-08-05

Archived / removed

Why

3 issues were not corrected in time
1 issues were not corrected despite reminders
1 policy violation. Misuse of 'strip'

biodosetools issues were not corrected in time	2026-08-05
clustGLMM issues were not corrected in time	2026-08-05
minired issues were not corrected despite reminders	2026-08-05
scimesh policy violation. Misuse of 'strip'	2026-08-05
GEC issues were not corrected in time	2026-08-02

Downloads

48.8M

Total downloads

-79.7%

vs prior period

Most downloaded

1	rlang Functions for Base Types and Core R and 'Tidyverse' Features	549.8K
2	vctrs Vector Helpers	483.3K
3	cli Helpers for Developing Command Line Interfaces	470.8K
4	RcppEigen 'Rcpp' Integration for the 'Eigen' Templated Linear Algebra Library	465.9K
5	lifecycle Manage the Life Cycle of your Package Functions	453.1K
6	ggplot2 Create Elegant Data Visualisations Using the Grammar of Graphics	445.3K
7	Rcpp Seamless R and C++ Integration	433.4K
8	RcppParallel Parallel Programming Tools for 'Rcpp'	422.6K
9	R6 Encapsulated Classes with Reference Semantics	411.8K
10	glue Interpreted String Literals	411.6K
11	fs Cross-Platform File System Operations Based on 'libuv'	402.9K
12	withr Run Code 'With' Temporarily Modified Global State	401K
13	tibble Simple Data Frames	396.3K
14	magrittr A Forward-Pipe Operator for R	390.7K
15	StanHeaders C++ Header Files for Stan	379.6K
16	pillar Coloured Formatting for Columns	372.7K
17	cpp11 A C++11 Interface for R's C Interface	369.4K
18	jsonlite A Simple and Robust JSON Parser and Generator for R	357.2K
19	rstan R Interface to Stan	357K
20	rmarkdown Dynamic Documents for R	356.2K

Fastest growing

1	rdtools Efficient Manipulation of 'Rd' Files and Help Topics	+999%+
2	seasonalytics Compute Seasonality Index, Seasonalized and Deseaonalised the Time Series Data	+999%+
3	PDIndex Disease Intensity and Progress Curve Indices for Plant Pathology	+999%+
4	mcanalysis Markov Chain Analysis for Structural Behaviour and Stability	+999%+
5	DFBA Distribution-Free Bayesian Analysis	+543%
6	MPsychoR Modern Psychometrics with R	-6%
7	fivethirtyeight Data and Code Behind the Stories and Interactives at 'FiveThirtyEight'	-13%
8	drc Analysis of Dose-Response Curves	-16%
9	ifaTools Toolkit for Item Factor Analysis with 'OpenMx'	-17%
10	lfda Local Fisher Discriminant Analysis	-32%
11	listviewer 'htmlwidget' for Interactive Views of R Lists	-37%
12	bootES Bootstrap Confidence Intervals on Effect Sizes	-38%
13	policytree Policy Learning via Doubly Robust Empirical Welfare Maximization over Trees	-42%
14	spatial Functions for Kriging and Point Pattern Analysis	-42%
15	prefmod Utilities to Fit Paired Comparison Models for Preferences	-43%
16	orientlib Support for Orientation Data	-44%
17	js Tools for Working with JavaScript in R	-44%
18	RMariaDB Database Interface and MariaDB Driver	-48%
19	xdvir Render 'LaTeX' in Plots	-48%
20	IRdisplay 'Jupyter' Display Machinery	-50%

Biggest debuts

1	ftsspec Spectral Density Estimation and Comparison for Functional Time Series	136
2	BCT Bayesian Context Trees for Discrete Time Series	133
3	mutator Mutation Testing	102
4	crbcc C R Bytecode Compiler	101
5	lame Longitudinal Additive and Multiplicative Effects Models for Networks	97
6	MALDIassist Mathematical Utilities for MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry	97
7	LSJM Estimate Location-Scale Joint Models	96
8	sondage Survey Sampling Algorithms	94
9	fipp Induced Priors in Bayesian Mixture Models	94
10	KernelICA Kernel Independent Component Analysis	94
11	dwg2geo Convert Engineering 'DWG' Drawings to Auditable 'GeoJSON'	91
12	zmij Round-Trip-Safe Double-Precision Formatting	87
13	FinancialInstrument Financial Instrument Modeling Infrastructure	86
14	specmine Metabolomics and Spectral Data Analysis and Mining	80
15	brazilmaps Brazilian Maps from Different Geographic Levels	78
16	jiebaRS Chinese Text Segmentation, POS Tagging, and Keyword Extraction	72
17	bluertopo Download and Extract BlueTopo Bathymetry with Terra	71
18	cardinalfda FDA Safety Tables and Figures	64
19	asleep Estimate Sleep from 'Accelerometry' Data	59
20	polyglotSQL SQL Parsing, Analysis and Dialect Translation	58

Ecosystem health

17,619

Newly flagged

17,715

Recovered

+96

Net

Notable

Recovered from check failures (ERROR → OK)

Major version jumps

facomplex 0.0.3→1.0.0 tinyarray 2.4.3→3.0.0 FunctionalCalibration 1.0.0→2.0.0 ICEHmeasures 1.1.0→2.0.0 trajeR 0.11.1→1.0 WeightIt 1.7.0→2.0.0 ssddata 1.0.0→2.0.0 weightflow 0.2.0→1.0.0 nlmixr2est 6.0.1→7.0.2 writexl 1.5.4→2.0.0

First-time CRAN authors

Assanali Amandykov Pierre Donat-Bouillud João Paulo Assis Bonifácio João Paulo Assis Bonifácio Kristian Debrabant Enrique Hernández-Lemus Taeho Kim Andreas Kristian Pedersen Pedro Mambelli Fernandes ×2 Anna Mejldal Sören Möller Afsaneh M. Nejad Edsel A. Pena Geraldo Magela da Cruz Pereira Geraldo Magela da Cruz Pereira Guillermo de Anda-Jáuregui Keerthi Aaradhana ×5 Alex Assuied Clement Bader Antoine Benard