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

Kick-off posit::conf with me. I'm teaching a virtual workshop about Positron on September 14 at 8am UTC. conf.posit.co/2026/sessions/

Posit@posit.co · last wk.

posit::conf(2026) has a full virtual experience: a half-day workshop, three dedicated talk tracks on Sept 14, all keynotes and sessions livestreamed Sept 15–16. New: live captioning in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Register today at posit.co/conference

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...

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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Good news for Europe: posit::conf's virtual pass now includes auto-subtitles in French, Spanish, Portuguese, German & Italian 🎉 Plus a virtual workshop on 9/14, multiple time slots, and recordings within hours — easy to catch afternoon US sessions next morning. Join us virtually!

Posit@posit.co · last mo.

Data science by day. 80s party by night. posit::conf(2026) wraps day one with retro arcade games and a live cover band in Houston. September 14–16. conf.posit.co/2026/sessions

Do you love maps? Of course you do! With the latest release of #ggsql we now support spatial plotting directly from your database. As a cherry on top, the release also provides powerful in-layer aggregation. Read all about it on the blog

ggsql 0.4.1: Spatial plotting and in-layer aggregation

ggsql 0.4.1 adds support for spatial plotting and data aggregation within layers. Read all about the new features in this release post.

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Organizing a community data science event or workshop? Posit wants to help! If you need event funding, awesome swag, social media signal boosts, or guest speakers/mentors, please reach out. Learn more: opensource.posit.co/about/commun...

Community event and initiative support

Posit is committed to supporting the open-source community through conferences, community events, and educational initiatives. The wide adoption of open-source tools depends on the people who organize...

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Thread of several new things from @carpentries.carpentries.org this week, all related to genAI. 1. We have launched a bonus module to Instructor Training, GenAI in Workshops. carpentries.org/blog/2026/06...

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

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

Learn all about PARQUET FILES 😍 on the #DSLab with us! TOMORROW, TUESDAY JUNE 2ND! WITH NIC CRANE! ( @niccrane.bsky.social) 12PM ET / 9AM PT REGISTER: pos.it/dslab #databs #rstats #pydata #CAPSLOCK

🛠️ The Carpentries is hosting a new series of GenAI + Teaching Discussions, bringing educators together to share their experiences. The first call will take place on Thursday 18 June. Find out more and register at www.software.ac.uk/news/genai-t...

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

R/Medicine 2026 covers R being used across the full health data workflow - from clinical data entry and REDCap pipelines to reproducible reporting, large-scale analysis, and AI-assisted tools. Register today! rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #clinicaltrials #healthdata #datascience

We are thrilled to announce that Positron Server is now available for academic use via JupyterHub! This gives students a robust #RStats & #Python data science IDE without needing a local install or new infrastructure. Learn more: positron.posit.co/blog/posts/2...

And another Quarto announcement; I've alluded to it before, but we're making it "official". We've started work on Quarto 2. The blog post has an overview: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... We'll share more in future blog posts, but here's what you can expect from the Quarto 2 dev effort: (1/)

What’s next: Quarto 2 – Quarto

We’ve started working on quarto-dev/q2, a full rewrite of Quarto in Rust.

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New post: Zut, Git ! Porting {saperlipopette} to the terminal with Claude masalmon.eu/2026/02/27/z...

The future of #DataScience is at #positconf 2026. Check out our keynote lineup: Wes McKinney: Future of high-performance computing Christine Zhang: Data storytelling at NY Times Emily Riederer: Scaling open-source at Capital One Sara Altman & Simon Couch: AI-driven workflows Register: pos.it/conf

🚨New paper + software Folks I want to introduce #evolved —our R package for teaching evolutionary biology through inquiry-based learning. For undergrad + grad courses. 🧬💻 Paper link: doi.org/10.21105/jos... #RStats #Evolution #STEMEducation #activelearning

evolved: open software for teaching evolutionary biology through virtual inquiries

Januario et al., (2026). evolved: open software for teaching evolutionary biology through virtual inquiries. Journal of Open Source Education, 9(96), 300, https://doi.org/10.21105/jose.00300

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📣 registration for the rainbowR conference is now live 🎉 The conference is for anyone interested in R and/or analysing data to understand LGBTQ+ issues. The majority of speakers and workshop leaders are LGBTQ+, but you do not have to be LGBTQ+ to attend. pretix.eu/rainbowr/con... #RStats #LGBTQ

rainbowR Conference 2026

Feb. 25 – 26, 2026

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In this week's newsletter, @simonpcouch.com and I share some interesting tidbits from Claude's constitution, an estimate of the electricity use of coding agents, and an update on our plot interpretation work.

Posit@posit.co · 6mo ago

🗞️ Here's the latest edition of the Posit AI newsletter, your biweekly roundup of AI news from Posit and beyond. This week's edition includes: • Claude's "constitution" • How much electricity do coding agents use? • Pre- and post-training And more! 📬 Read the newsletter: posit.co/blog/ai-news...

The Advent of SQL has started 🎄 This year it's hosted by "Database School" and requires signing up: databaseschool.com/series/adven... I'll be solving the challenges using #DuckDB and my solutions for the first two days are up on my website: francoismichonneau.net/2025/12/adve...

Did you know there are two contests happening right now? ✨ 📊 Table Contest: use any #RStats or #Python package. 📈 Plotnine Contest: use the Plotnine #Python package. Show off your skills, share your work, and earn some well-deserved open-source cred! Learn more: posit.co/blog/announc...

Posit@posit.co · 10mo ago

Want to win the 2025 Table Contest? Get inspired by @bamattre.bsky.social's interactive table, which turns the Board Game Geek database into a practical tool ✨ His entry: bamattre.github.io/boardgames/ Submit your table using any #RStats or #Python package! Details: github.com/rich-iannone...

📣We're hosting a rainbowR conference, to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the #RStats community and to showcase examples of working with LGBTQ+ data 🌈🎉 To help us plan, if you'd be interested in attending or speaking, please fill in this very short form (1-2 mins) docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tx0...

Interested in a rainbowR Conference?

rainbowR (https://rainbowr.org) is hosting a virtual conference (tentative date: February 26, 2026). The aim of the conference is to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the R community, and to showca...

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At @okfn.bsky.social we are looking for a short-term R Developer. The work is exciting and important, advancing a humanitarian mission! Apply or share with others!

Senior R Developer – Jobs & Opportunities – Open Knowledge Foundation

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tidyverse blog: Breaking down language barriers in data science nanonext is a messaging and concurrency toolkit, connecting R to polyglot data science pipelines involving modules written in Python, Rust, Go and C++ etc. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... #RStats #tidyverse

nanonext 1.7.0

nanonext is a communications and concurrency toolbox that facilitates fast, powerful and reliable data exchange in polyglot data science workflows.

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I’ve been working on an update to the #quarto R package for weeks. I hope it improves your #rstats workflow with Quarto. Lots of new helpers and tooling beyond the usual CLI wrappers. I believe some functions will be really useful! Looking forward to your feedback! github.com/quarto-dev/q...

GitHub - quarto-dev/quarto-r: R interface to quarto-cli

R interface to quarto-cli. Contribute to quarto-dev/quarto-r development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Quarto@quarto.org · last yr.

🎉 Quarto R package v1.5.0 is here! New features to boost your workflow: - Pass R values to Quarto metadata - Markdown in HTML tables - Light & dark themes for plots/tables - Work with R scripts & automate CLI Read more: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... #RStats #Quarto #DataScience #OpenSource

🎉 Big news! After 5+ years of consulting work under the R for the Rest of Us name, I'm launching Clarity Data Studio. The name confusion was real – people thought we only did courses, not knowing about our consulting work building reports, websites, and more.

orbital is such a cool idea — convert your tidymodels or (now) scikit learn model predictions to SQL so you can run them in the database

Posit@posit.co · last yr.

Announcing Orbital for Python! For Scikit-learn users, this tool transforms your ML pipelines into SQL queries, letting predictions run directly in your database without a #Python environment. Learn more: posit.co/blog/introdu...