If you're planning an R submission, I hope that renv will be a useful part of your submission's reproducibility story. rstudio.github.io/renv/ #rstats

R Consortium@rconsortium.bsky.social · 12h ago

R submissions to FDA are feasible, but they must be easy to reproduce and review. Practical guidance from the R Consortium Submissions Working Group: r-consortium.org/posts/making... #RStats #FDA

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

I'm happy to share `ir`, a new command-line tool for running portable R scripts and Quarto documents. It's inspired by my two favorite parts of `uv`: self-describing scripts and tools you can run without installing first. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...

ir 0.1.0: self-describing R scripts and Quarto documents

`ir` is a new command-line tool for running portable R scripts and rendering Quarto documents whose package requirements, and optional R selection, live inside the file itself.

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Got my comment on the abomination of the OMB rule in at the last minute. We could reach 400K tonight. This is one skirmish, but with hundreds of thousands of Americans, we have the power of a movement. Thanks @standupforscience.net, @defendpublichealth.bsky.social, and everyone else in the fight.

Costa Samaras@costasamaras.com · 3w ago

Gratitude and congratulations to @cdelawalla.bsky.social, @colesci.bsky.social, and the @standupforscience.net team. With 3 hours until the comment period closes, there are 341,699 public comments! Still time to submit one: www.regulations.gov/docket/OMB-2...

🎉 We've just moved @ropensci.org on Bluesky to a fully independent account! We were previously bridged from our Mastodon account via Bridgy Fed. Same community, same content, fresh start. Give us a follow if you haven't already! 🦋 #RStats

important knowledge for anyone who doesn't want the big AI button in rstudio: right click, wave bye. also discoverable in the "Assistant" preferences pane. #rstats

A brazen raiding of public funds, ignoring Congressional directives and cutting basic science programs to send money to the insatiable maw of the AI industry. #NSF 🧪

Jeffrey Mervis@policyhound.bsky.social · last mo.

Been wondering why NSF isn't spending most of its FY26 appropriation? A $1.5B tech initiative may be the reason. And big cuts to hundreds of research programs could be just the beginning of the bad news. www.science.org/content/arti...

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

dbplyr 2.6.0 is here! This release leaned on Claude Code to clear a TON of smaller issues, freeing up time for the big stuff: brand-new ADBC and JDBC backends, new translations, and a new sql_dialect() to cleanly decouple connection from SQL dialect. Read more: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

dbplyr 2.6.0

dbplyr 2.6.0 is now on CRAN, with new ADBC and JDBC backends, IBM DB2 support, more translations, and a bunch of minor fixes and improvements.

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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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The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

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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This is and always will be Elon Musk's true legacy. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

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Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2mo ago

ask not what your scaffolding can do for you... ask what you can do for your scaffolding

Have you ever tried to combine Positron, renv, brms/CmdStan, Quarto, and Docker into a reproducible scientific workflow in R? I didn't think so. Here is my attempt. #openscience #rstats #positron inspired by: @andrew.heiss.phd @matti.vuorre.com @mc-stan.org github.com/rich-ramsey/...

GitHub - rich-ramsey/positron-workflow: This project presents a minimal reproducible workflow template for cognitive neuroscience research using Positron, R, Bayesian modelling, and Docker.

This project presents a minimal reproducible workflow template for cognitive neuroscience research using Positron, R, Bayesian modelling, and Docker. - rich-ramsey/positron-workflow

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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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Hurrah🎉🎉🎉! #RStats

Tyler Morgan-Wall@tylermw.com · 10mo ago

"Man, I really wish RStudio respected hierarchy in code-folded section headers... I wonder how easy it would be to..." (inner voice: DON'T DO IT! IT'S NOT WORTH IT! JUST GET BACK TO WORK! THE YAK IS BEST LEFT UNSHORN!) "... I'm gonna do it." #RStats #RStudio

Four years of daily Quarto use. One CLI replaced bookdown, xaringan, distill, and R Markdown. 40+ extensions. ~14,000 comments/replies. mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2026-06-10-why-quarto-stuck/ #quarto #typst #rstats #QuartoPub

Why Quarto Stuck: Four Years from a Biostatistician’s Desk - mickael.canouil.fr

After four years of daily use, Quarto has replaced R Markdown across my reports, slides, websites, and books. I reflect on what made it stick: cleaner defaults, real multi-language support, the extens...

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NSF seems to have stopped making new awards last week. There have been no new awards from any directorate since Weds, June 3. Even with the slow pace of new awards this year, there's been a consistent trickle. Something stopped the flow. grant-witness.us/funding_curv... #NSF 🧪

We've been working to make mori better - 0.2.1 is now on CRAN! Share R objects across processes with zero copies using shared memory + ALTREP. Supports mirai and all parallel frameworks. New: `prune_shared()` cleans orphaned regions, cleaner errors. github.com/shikokuchuo/... #Rstats #Tidyverse

GitHub - shikokuchuo/mori: Shared Memory for R Objects

Shared Memory for R Objects. Contribute to shikokuchuo/mori development by creating an account on GitHub.

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A quick #rstats technote about some cool recent additions to R-universe: 1. Social media cards that actually look good 2. PACKAGES.rds support (or: implementing R internals in JavaScript) 3. Fancy sort/filter bars in the WebUI 4. triggering a sync manually 5. Making check results easier to find

Five recent R-universe features you might have missed

In this technote we look at a few recent additions that make R-universe a little nicer, faster, or more convenient to use.

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The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)

back in my day, we use emacs to edit our .emacs files. now we use claude to edit our CLAUDE.md files

💻 RStudio addins now run in Positron through the command palette, including the addins from my annotater package (despite relying heavily on the rstudioapi pkg for modifying open files!) Nice! #rstats

love to chat with virtual assistants

"on its way to CRAN", the five sweetest words in the english language #rstats

Posit AI is $20/mo, most of which goes to model API costs. Does that mean other, subsidized subscriptions provide more tokens at the same price point? @sara-altman.bsky.social and I wrote about the tokenomics of Posit AI and the end of token subsidies: posit.co/blog/posit-a...

Posit AI is priced for the long run

The party is ending for subsidized AI tokens. Posit AI is sustainably priced and built for data work.

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R packages by ropensci

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training my new frontier AI model exclusively on the short story "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"

resisting the urge to respond "what if we just remove commas from the language" on the R-devel thread about how trailing commas should be handled