--- title: January 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages | daily.dev description: A curated selection of 40 notable R packages added to CRAN in January 2026, chosen from 241 new submissions. Packages span 19 categories including Artificial... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/january-2026-top-40-new-cran-packages-v1t5g34io twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: January 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages | daily.dev og:description: A curated selection of 40 notable R packages added to CRAN in January 2026, chosen from 241 new submissions. Packages span 19 categories including Artificial... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/january-2026-top-40-new-cran-packages-v1t5g34io og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/v1T5g34IO.png og:image:alt: January 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. # January 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages **[R-bloggers](https://daily.dev/sources/rbloggers)** · 15 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A curated selection of 40 notable R packages added to CRAN in January 2026, chosen from 241 new submissions. Packages span 19 categories including Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Statistics, Genomics, Finance, Epidemiology, High Performance Computing, and Visualization. Highlights include kuzco for LLM-powered computer vision, futurize for easy parallel computing via the future ecosystem, OptimalBinningWoE for credit scoring with 36 binning algorithms, rCISSVAE for deep learning-based missing data imputation, and multiple ggplot2 extensions for specialized scientific visualizations. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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