Get ready for Green Saharan genomes, super-duckweed, Alzheimer’s blood tests, Volume 112 of the Journal of Statistical Software, a Litmus test for R packages, and the Top 40 New CRAN Packages for February 2025. Science On.

References:

• Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage
• Duckweed genomes and epigenomes underlie triploid hybridization and clonal reproduction
• Plasma MTBR-tau243 biomarker identifies tau tangle pathology in Alzheimer’s disease
• Genome duplication in a long-term multicellularity evolution experiment
• Cooperative hydrodynamics accompany multicellular-like colonial organization in the unicellular ciliate Stentor
• Journal of Statistical Software, Volume 112
• Did George Box say, "All models are wrong, but some are useful"?
• Nested bar charts in SAS
• Bayesian proportional hazards model for a stepped-wedge design
• Should I Use Your R Package?
• February 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

R Packages:

• castgen: Estimate Sample Size for Population Genomic Studies
• ClassificationEnsembles: Automatically Builds 20 Classification Models
• ForecastingEnsembles: Time Series Forecasting Using 23 Individual Models
• NumericEnsembles: Automatically Runs 23 Individual and 17 Ensembles of Models
• pcpr: Principal Component Pursuit for Environmental Epidemiology