Changes on CRAN

The ‘Changes on CRAN’ article from the 2019-2 issue.

In the past 4 months, 632 new packages were added to the CRAN package repository. 27 packages were unarchived and 182 were archived. The following shows the growth of the number of active packages in the CRAN package repository:

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On 2019-12-31, the number of active packages was around 15227.

Changes in the CRAN Repository Policy

The Checklist for CRAN submissions now says the following:

• Make the Description as informative as possible for potential new users of your package. If in doubt, make the Description longer rather than shorter, but try to avoid redundancies such as repetitions of the package name.
• Write function names including parentheses as in foo() but without quotes.

CRAN package submissions

CRAN mirror security

Currently, there are 97 official CRAN mirrors, 67 of which provide both secure downloads via https and use secure mirroring from the CRAN master (via rsync through ssh tunnels). Since the R 3.4.0 release, chooseCRANmirror() offers these mirrors in preference to the others which are not fully secured (yet).

New CRAN task views

Tracking

Topic: Processing and Analysis of Tracking Data. Maintainer: Rocío Joo, Matthew E. Boone, Michael Sumner and Mathieu Basille. Packages: BBMM, BayesianAnimalTracker, EMbC, FLightR, GGIR, GeoLight, PhysicalActivity, SDLfilter, SiMRiv, SimilarityMeasures, TrackReconstruction, TrajDataMining, VTrack, acc, accelerometry, adehabitatHR, adehabitatLT\(^*\), amt, animalTrack, anipaths, argosfilter, bcpa, bsam, caribou, crawl, ctmcmove, ctmm, diveMove, foieGras, m2b, marcher, mkde, momentuHMM, move\(^*\), moveHMM, moveVis, moveWindSpeed, nparACT, pawacc, recurse, rpostgisLT, rsMove, segclust2d, smam, spatsoc, trackdem, trackeR, trajectories, trajr, trip, tripEstimation, wildlifeDI.

(* = core package)

New packages in CRAN task views

ChemPhys

RadData, radsafer.

Distributions

MomTrunc, OwenQ, TruncatedNormal, distr6, distributions3, parameters, spam, truncdist.

Econometrics

durmod, lpirfs.

HighPerformanceComputing

RxODE.

Hydrology

FedData, VICmodel, baseflow, echor, nasapower, openair.

MachineLearning

mlr3.

MetaAnalysis

BayesCombo, CopulaDTA, EValue, GENMETA, GMCM, HSROC, KenSyn, MBNMAdose, MBNMAtime, NMAoutlier, PRISMAstatement, PublicationBias, RBesT, RcmdrPlugin.MA, SingleCaseES, baggr, catmap, effectsize, harmonicmeanp, jarbes, mc.heterogeneity, metaBLUE, metacart, metapro, mixmeta, nmadb.

MissingData

MatchThem.

NumericalMathematics

HypergeoMat, SQUAREM, calculus, commonsMath, daarem, freealg, jack, kubik, matlib, mbend, turboEM, wedge.

OfficialStatistics

MatchThem, RJDemetra, diyar, simPop, tidyqwi.

Optimization

GPareto, Jaya, OOR, SCOR, nonneg.cg, roptim.

Pharmacokinetics

RxODE, nlmixr.

Psychometrics

conquestr, jrt, psychonetrics.

ReproducibleResearch

DataPackageR, ProjectTemplate, RSuite, RepoGenerator, adapr, cabinets, drake, exreport, here, madrat, makeProject, orderly, prodigenr, projects, renv, repo, reports, represtools, storr, tinyProject, usethis, workflowr, zoon.

SpatioTemporal

AtmRay, EMbC, SDLfilter, SiMRiv, SpaTimeClus, amt, anipaths, bsam, caribou, eyelinker, eyetracking, eyetrackingR, foieGras, gazepath, marcher, mdftracks, momentuHMM, mousetrack, mousetrap, moveVis, moveWindSpeed, movecost, oce, opentraj, psyosphere, rerddapXtracto, riverdist, rpostgisLT, rsMove, saccades, spatsoc, stampr, stplanr, trackdem, trackdf, trackeRapp, trajectories, trajr.

TeachingStatistics

BetaBit, DALEX, HH, car, carData, effects, regtools, resampledata.

TimeSeries

VARshrink, fable\(^*\), feasts\(^*\), forecastML, fpp3, nsarfima, sazedR.

gR

bnclassify, mgm, qgraph, sna.

(* = core package)

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