@posit.co Positron Server is now free for academic JupyterHub with a teaching license. Students get a full data science IDE (Python/R, debugger, data viewer) in-browser, no install needed. blog.jupyter.org/positron-ser...

Check out the blog post Wasim and Cindy Tong wrote announcing the GA launch: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07... Give it a try and let us know how you get on!

Positron's Jupyter Notebook Editor Is Now Generally Available

The Positron Jupyter Notebook editor is now generally available, bringing a first-class notebook experience with built-in environment management, interactive data exploration, streamlined version cont...

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The Positron Notebook Editor is out of beta and ready for all your notebook workflows! I am super proud of the work the team did to build this notebook experience from scratch. Something we decided was necessary to have a fantastic notebook experience for data science.

Interested in giving Positron a try? 🚀 We just launched a free, self-paced learning path covering: 🔹 UI navigation 🔹 Working with data 🔹 Running & managing code 👉 Start here: academy.posit.co/path/introdu... #DataScience #Positron #RStats #Python

Pumpkin Spice Positron

TIL you can move the Activity Bar to the top of the sidebar. Great when working with laptops. Spotted from @hadley.nz setup in @posit.co Data Science Lab

Neat. Positron now recognizes a pyproject.toml, offers to build an environment with one click using uv 🚀 opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...

The latest release of #Positron went out last week, and I am so pleased to share what's in it! 🥳 Some big features we've been working on for a while (the editor for `.ipynb` notebooks, the Packages pane, Posit Assistant) all came out of preview this month: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...

This is a fabulous chance to learn from @ivelasq3.bsky.social (and I'd jump at any chance you get to do so!!) If you're an R-Studio #rstats user who'd like a friendly intro to Positron in a relaxed, questions-welcome atmosphere, we got you.

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 Join @libbyheeren.bsky.social and Isabella Velásquez to explore the next generation of data science development in a relaxed, beginner-friendly environment!

A full-day Python workshop at posit::conf(2026) on September 14: Polars, Plotnine, Great Tables, and Scikit-Learn, built around a single case study and taught in Positron. Several workshops are filling. Houston, September 14–16. posit.co/conference

The latest release of Positron leverages `uv` to make getting started with Python as easy as a single click 👾 I wrote up a lil blog post on the places Positron elevates `uv` to help with Python workflows. You can read it here: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...

Positron + uv: Python setup in one click

Exploring the Positron features that use uv to enable Python installation and management.

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Latest version of Positron can open xlsx files in the data viewer(!) and it has a dropdown menu now for previewing different formats of #QuartoPub documents And—most importantly, but also from a few weeks ago, so less new—the plots panel can pick up dimensions from chunk options!!!! #rstats

Every item in my "Things I still wish Positron could do" section here is now doable 🎉

Fun with Positron | Andrew Heiss

Combine the best of RStudio and Visual Studio Code in Posit’s new Positron IDE

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Read this incredibly useful post by Community Engineer Steffi LaZerte if you write prose in Quarto or R Markdown! I begged her to write it so I could duplicate her spellcheck, formatting and grammar linting config. (Also, note that we reset the @ropensci.org account, give it a re-follow!) #RStats

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[blog] FOSS Tools for Lazy Editors ✍️ Steffi LaZerte shares her editorial workflow for the rOpenSci blog, built on FOSS tools configured as extensions in Positron 🛠️ ropensci.org/blog/2026/07... #RStats

Posit has joined the Jupyter Foundation! 🎉 @jupyter.org has powered interactive computing across our tools for years, from Notebooks to the kernels behind Positron. Now we're helping fund the infrastructure and community that keep it thriving. Read the blog: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

Announcing Toolbars for Shiny! Managing limited screen real estate for filters, controls, or AI components is a challenge. Toolbars addresses this by with a compact, low-profile UI container for headers, footers, and text inputs. See #RStats & #Python examples: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05...

Introducing Toolbars: Supercharge your Cards and Inputs

New compact components in bslib and py-shiny for fitting buttons, selects, and other inputs into tight spaces.

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Free full workshop video now available. Garrett Grolemund shows how to use AI + R with health data in Positron, including Quarto reports, dashboards, Shiny apps, and QueryChat. r-consortium.org/webinars/use... #rstats @posit.co

I'm thrilled to share that #querychat now supports more exploratory visualization powered by #ggsql. We're excited about what this direction can unlock for data scientists looking to curate "tidy" data for others explore. Expect more on this in the coming months. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

Ask more of your dashboard with querychat and ggsql

querychat now supports ggsql-powered visualizations — users can ask "show me" questions and get charts rendered directly in the chat, alongside SQL queries and reactive filtering, all without arbitrar...

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I want to publicly thank @jcheng5.bsky.social for being willing to write this post, laying out how our AI tooling has evolved (including those eyebrow-raising product names)! 😅 opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

A brief and biased history of Posit data science agents

What we learned from Positron Assistant and Databot

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Coding agents like Claude Code are great at general-purpose work. Posit Assistant is built specifically for data: #RStats / #Python session access, plots in the chat, and specialized data analysis capabilities. Post + video: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

Posit Assistant is specialized for data work

What distinguishes Posit Assistant from general-purpose agents like Claude Code for data work.

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When we started working on Positron, we began by asking "what did we always want to do in RStudio, but couldn't"? Years of community upvotes on RStudio's issue tracker helped us form that wishlist. Here's how some big ideas made their way to Positron: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

RStudio's Top Feature Requests ... In Positron

Many of the most upvoted RStudio feature requests are already implemented in Positron, and we explore ten of them.

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The user interface in the new Posit Assistant is one of the best and most intuitive I've seen for using AI tools for editing code. This will be excellent for students and researchers already familiar with RStudio. This is a brilliant harness and user experience for using AI for data science 🎉

okay it wasnt just me "Positron now caches previously discovered system interpreters, dramatically speeding up startup in new folders and projects [...]. On Windows, we fixed multi-minute startup delays by skipping slow PATH discovery by default [...]" opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

The latest release of #Positron went out last week, and I am so pleased to share some of what's in it! 🙌 Read about how we improved startup performance, the ongoing migration from Positron Assistant to Posit Assistant, and more: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

I've just tried Posit Assistant on the free plan and must say, I'm impressed. Using the super-cheap Gemma 4 26B model (10% cost of Sonnet) on free plan it worked instantly. Hats of to the #posit team for integrating this into RStudio and allowing people to test with free plan!

If you want to learn more Positron, we have some free live training session coming up, including one tomorrow June 4th. In about 90 minutes you'll get to try out the AI features that make data science faster. Register on the new Posit Academy site: academy.posit.co/positron-ai-...

Posit@posit.co · 2mo ago

Posit Academy is live. Free courses, hands-on labs, and guided Apprenticeships built for Posit tools. A path for every kind of learner. 👉 academy.posit.co #RStats #PositAcademy

yessss most recent #QuartoPub Positron/VS Code extension has a couple neat features! #rstats #databs - Toggle code chunks in the outline! - Rainbow highlighting for nested pandoc divs!

I'd like to make positron look as much like RStudio as possible, do people have settings/configs that they feel approaches something like this? #rstats #positron

Make a mess of your {targets} pipeline over time? Spark joy and reorganize it with the VS Code/Positron ext. 🌳tarborist! Tarborist now has the ability to reorder your pipeline based on the graph's hierarchy, so the target order matches the underlying pipeline. github.com/tylermorganw... #RStats

I'm finally getting around to making this switch. Hoping to connect with #rstats folks and get back into #TidyTuesday.