--- title: August 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages | daily.dev description: A curated roundup highlights 40 notable R packages out of 329 newly submitted to CRAN in July 2026, spanning nineteen categories including agriculture,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/august-2026-top-40-new-cran-packages-fxzxlquda twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: August 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages | daily.dev og:description: A curated roundup highlights 40 notable R packages out of 329 newly submitted to CRAN in July 2026, spanning nineteen categories including agriculture,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/august-2026-top-40-new-cran-packages-fxzxlquda og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fXzXlqUDA.png og:image:alt: August 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # August 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages **[R-bloggers](https://daily.dev/sources/rbloggers)** · 17 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A curated roundup highlights 40 notable R packages out of 329 newly submitted to CRAN in July 2026, spanning nineteen categories including agriculture, artificial intelligence, climate studies, ecology, genomics, machine learning, medical statistics, networks, process control, programming, public transit, statistics, surveys, time series, and visualization. Notable entries include commons for trustworthy LLM agents, diffuseR for native R diffusion image generation without Python, Rhobots implementing BERTopic entirely in R, openfhe.R for fully homomorphic encryption, polyglotSQL for parsing and translating SQL across 30+ dialects using a Rust crate, and orbis for a layered grammar-of-graphics plotting system with interactive SVG output. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Is there an R package for fully homomorphic encryption using OpenFHE? Yes, openfhe.R version 1.5.1.1 provides an R interface to OpenFHE, the open-source C++ library for fully homomorphic encryption. It supports the Brakerski-Fan-Vercauteren, Brakerski-Gentry-Vaikuntanathan, and Cheon-Kim-Kim-Song schemes for arithmetic on encrypted numbers without access to the secret key, with vignettes covering an introduction and CKKS bootstrapping. _Explore emerging privacy-preserving computation tools like this one through daily.dev._ ### Can I run BERTopic topic modeling in R without Python? Yes, the Rhobots package (v0.1.10) implements the full BERTopic topic modeling pipeline natively in R with no dependency on Python, conda, or reticulate. It provides transformer-based sentence embedding, UMAP dimensionality reduction, HDBSCAN clustering, and class-based TF-IDF topic extraction using torch, safetensors, tok, uwot, and dbscan, mirroring the original Python API. _Track new R packages that replace Python dependencies by following data science tooling on daily.dev._ ### Is there an R package for parsing and translating SQL between different database dialects? Yes, polyglotSQL (v0.1.0) parses, tokenizes, validates, formats, analyzes, and translates SQL across more than 30 dialects including PostgreSQL, MySQL, BigQuery, Snowflake, DuckDB, and T-SQL. It uses the polyglot-sql Rust crate, processes everything locally in the R session, and includes column-level lineage, query optimization, AST diffing, and OpenLineage facet generation. _Keep up with cross-dialect SQL tooling developments like this one on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [June 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages](https://daily.dev/posts/june-2026-top-40-new-cran-packages-yhc1oljsi) · R-bloggers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [January 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages](https://daily.dev/posts/january-2026-top-40-new-cran-packages-v1t5g34io) · R-bloggers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [December 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages](https://daily.dev/posts/december-2025-top-40-new-cran-packages-x54bnlsm5) · R-bloggers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [March 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages](https://daily.dev/posts/march-2026-top-40-new-cran-packages-f39004gwm) · R-bloggers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [October 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages](https://daily.dev/posts/october-2025-top-40-new-cran-packages-8giq7hsbe) · R-bloggers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#machine-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/machine-learning), [#data-science](https://daily.dev/tags/data-science), [#r](https://daily.dev/tags/r), [#statistics](https://daily.dev/tags/statistics) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/august-2026-top-40-new-cran-packages-fxzxlquda) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"August 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/august-2026-top-40-new-cran-packages-fxzxlquda","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/august-2026-top-40-new-cran-packages-fxzxlquda"},"datePublished":"2026-09-29T14:44:12.455Z","dateModified":"2026-09-29T14:44:39.622Z","description":"A curated roundup highlights 40 notable R packages out of 329 newly submitted to CRAN in July 2026, spanning nineteen categories including agriculture,...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/a634a1da7803e60f99f54526b6953a64?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/a634a1da7803e60f99f54526b6953a64?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"R-bloggers","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"R-bloggers","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/98bcbbdf72774292a55ceda8f2277f1e","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/rbloggers"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/august-2026-top-40-new-cran-packages-fxzxlquda","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"machine-learning,data-science,r,statistics","timeRequired":"PT17M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"R-bloggers","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/rbloggers"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"August 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/august-2026-top-40-new-cran-packages-fxzxlquda#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"Is there an R package for fully homomorphic encryption using OpenFHE?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Yes, openfhe.R version 1.5.1.1 provides an R interface to OpenFHE, the open-source C++ library for fully homomorphic encryption. 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