Kinematic and *multi-force-plate* analysis of walking in giant pandas!
Quite a technical achievement in biomechanics, and certainly cute as all hell.
Scientifically, no shocking findings but it's a useful study with lots of data. 18 pandas (6 = juvenile), 120 trials
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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CRAN updates: forceplate yulab.utils #rstats

CRAN updates: Certara.RsNLME.ModelExecutor forceplate pedprobr RcppDPR vvconverter #rstats

CRAN updates: AllMetrics arrow bnlearn cffr forceplate moexer #rstats

CRAN updates: forceplate mosaic sps SticsRFiles #rstats

CRAN updates: DrugExposureDiagnostics forceplate heemod QuickJSR ungroup #rstats

New CRAN package {forceplate} with initial version1.0-0 #rstats

https://cran.r-project.org/package=forceplate

Updates on CRAN: astsa (2.4), BayesSIM (0.2.1), comtradr (1.0.5), datetimeutils (0.6-6), epicmodel (0.2.1), epiR (2.0.89), FMAT (2025.12), forceplate (1.1-5)

Updates on CRAN: Certara.RsNLME.ModelExecutor (3.0.2), FeatureExtraction (3.8.0), FMAT (2025.3), forceplate (1.1-4), MDMA (2.0.0), mlr3learners (0.10.0), pedprobr (0.9.5), RcppDPR (0.1.10), rerddap (1.2.1), vvconverter (0.7.0), wildlifeDI (1.0.1)

Updates on CRAN: AllMetrics (0.2.1), arrow (15.0.1), bnlearn (4.9.2), cffr (1.0.0), clubpro (0.6.0), cropgrowdays (0.2.1), cryptoQuotes (1.3.0), forceplate (1.1-3), geomtextpath (0.1.3), hce (0.6.0)

Updates on CRAN: BalancedSampling (2.0.5), escalation (0.1.8), forceplate (1.1-1), ltmix (0.2.2), mosaic (1.9.1), shape (1.4.6.1), spant (2.18.0), spBayesSurv (1.1.8), sps (0.5.4), SticsRFiles (1.2.0)

Updates on CRAN: cchs (0.4.4), coda (0.19-4.1), DRomics (2.5-2), DrugExposureDiagnostics (1.0.3), forceplate (1.1-0), GBJ (0.5.4), heemod (1.0.1), KnapsackSampling (0.1.1), MarketMatching (1.2.1), MultiStatM (1.2.1), optimizeR (1.0.3), pscl (1.5.9), QuickJSR (1.1.3), sbm (0.4.6), webmap (1.0.7)

New on CRAN: forceplate (1.0-0). View at https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=forceplate

forceplate: An R package for processing raw force-plate time-series data BehResM

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