The latest release of #Positron went out last week, and it is chock full of exciting stuff! 🤩 Check out the new Packages pane, inline output for Quarto, the new Posit Assistant interface, and more: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05...

I'm checking out the new packages pane in our #Positron IDE. Python or #RStats. The little blue arrows mean package updates are available. Search, sort, install, update, remove, and filter by category. More cool metadata coming in a future release.

We are excited to announce our next virtual meetup in collaboration with R-Ladies #Abuja. Join us on May 13 at 7:00 pm CEST (GMT+2) for a talk on performing automatic #NLP with #LLMs using #mall with Edgar Ruiz. RSVP here 🔗 www.meetup.com/rladies-pari... #RStats #RStatsFr #RLadies

Our Posit colleagues @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social @jeroenjanssens.com @ivelasq3.bsky.social and @mchow.com will be at PyCon US in a couple of days! Stop by the Posit booth, say hi, and pick up a sticker or two 💚

❓Do you use git worktrees? ❓How would you describe worktrees to a newbie? ❓Do you use extensions in your IDE of choice to use them more easily? ❓Do you perhaps using a worktree-first workflow with something like Conductor or Superset? 🙏🏻 Tell me all your worktree things! #databs #rstats #pydata

Quarto 1.9 brings Typst even closer to LaTeX parity with 📖 Typst Books, ✍️ margins for figures, tables, and citations via the Marginalia package, and 🛜 new typst-gather tool for reliable, offline rendering. Details here: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...

AI in Production 2026 is almost here. Workshops, two talk streams on machine learning & engineering, 20+ speakers from Netflix, Amazon, Posit, DoorDash and more. Thanks to our sponsors: @databricks.bsky.social, @posit.co, RSS, Accenture UK and CRC Press. ai-in-production.jumpingrivers.com

🗞️ Here's the latest edition of the Posit AI newsletter (now on the Posit Open Source blog!).   - A new Data Cleaning Mode for Posit Assistant   - The tabpfn package: pre-trained neural network for prediction   - In-context learning 📬 Read the newsletter: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05...

Announcing raghilda, a new #Python package for building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows! LLM knowledge is frozen in time. Raghilda grounds models in your own up-to-date data with a transparent, opinionated framework. Learn more: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...

Want to learn how the creator of pandas uses AI agents? 🐼 Join @wesmckinney.com on the "Show Us Your (Agent) Skills" podcast TONIGHT at 7pm ET to go deep into his personal agent workflows! Register here: luma.com/uvjjxbks

OpenTelemetry has come to R 🎉 Shiny, plumber2, mirai, httr2, ellmer, knitr, testthat, and DBI are now instrumented: production-grade traces from R with no code changes. Set a few env vars and telemetry flows to the backend of your choice. Full write-up: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05... #Rstats

Posit is at SOF Week 2026 in Tampa (May 18–21) — data science infrastructure built for air-gapped and classified environments. posit.co/solutions/public-sector?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_campaign=sof-week-2026&utm_content=public-sector-solutions #SOFWeek2026 #DefenseTech

heyyy Positron has a packages panel now!! And it works with both #rstats and Python! github.com/posit-dev/po...

Announcing posit::glimpse() May 2026! ✨ Key open-source updates for #RStats, #Python, and now #SQL: 📊 ggsql: Grammar of graphics for SQL 🤖 raghilda: Simplified RAG in Python 🔭 Shiny + pointblank: Built-in OpenTelemetry support 🦀 Quarto 2: A Rust-based future Read more: posit.co/blog/2026-05...

I'd love to learn more about how y'all are using AI for data science, so I've set up some times where you can chat with me: scheduler.zoom.us/hadley-wickh.... I'm interested in it all, whether it's your struggles, your successes, or what you're still trying to get your head around. #rstats

I don’t always check to be sure my podcasts have downloaded 3x before my flight but I just did for @posit.co / @mchow.com ‘s latest Test Set episode. Loving this series full of hype free data talk that makes every other Monday a touch better!

R/Medicine kicks off this week! 🧬 If you’re attending, catch our Posit colleagues Charlotte, François, and Sara for incredible talks and workshops. It’s going to be a fantastic week of learning! If you'd like to speak at an event, there are several open CFPs. We'd love to hear your story.

Meet the speakers for AI in Production 2026 — 30 practitioners from Netflix, Amazon, DoorDash, @posit.co , Neo4j, RedHat & more. Talks covering agentic AI, LLMs, ML in production & more. 4–5 June, Newcastle. General reg closes 28 May. ai-in-production.jumpingrivers.com

Announcing tabpfn 0.1.0 for #RStats! 📊 Bring foundation models to your tabular workflows. TabPFN uses "in-context learning" to deliver high-accuracy predictions without traditional training cycles. Learn more: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-03...

Just published a new blogpost on torch for #rstats updates: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...

A GitHub repo tells people what your code does. A live app shows them. Publish Shiny, Streamlit, Dash & Quarto apps straight from GitHub — public URLs, custom domains, no server config. Read the blog below! #rstats #python #datascience #openscience

📰 New post alert! Our second #tidymodels cheatsheet is out now! It covers creating models with {parsnip}. We have written a post with an overview of both our current cheatsheets: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04... #rstats #DataScience

Announcing Great Docs: Beautiful #Python package documentation 🐍 Point it at your code for a polished Quarto-powered site with 🔹 Auto-discovery of your public API 🔹 Modern UI (dark mode/gradients) 🔹 LLM-friendly output 🔹 One-command GitHub deployment Learn more: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...

Some incredible in-depth discussion between @vlad.website and @josh.bressers.name on the importance (and challenges) of paying OSS maintainers in this episode of Open Source Security! (PS thanks for the shout-out ☀️) opensourcesecurity.io/2026/2026-04...

Four engineers behind Posit Assistant broke down how to build an AI agent for data science — reasoning, agentic workflows, modeling guardrails, and chart extraction. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2sa... Download RStudio: posit.co/download/rst... #PositAI #RStats

We've had a flurry of new tidymodels #rstats releases. Here's a summary of what's been going on with a focus on ordered outcomes and quantile regression. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...

Happy Monday, everybody! We're shifting from CFP season to actual event season, and hope to see you at SDSS and R/Medicine! If you know of any great speaking opportunities that I should add to the list, let us know!

I will be starting a Houston restaurant guide so that all the lovely folks that attend this year's @posit.co conference will have a local's guide to our awesome eating scene!

Our AI newsletter has moved to the new @posit.co Open Source blog! In this edition, AI and cybersecurity, a step change for local coding agents, and a new dataviz engine for SQL. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...

The Grammar of Graphics for SQL – and it’s for real! 😅 #ggsql brings the Grammar of Graphics to SQL - developed by the team behind ggplot2 at Posit. No need to switch to another tool to create nice charts once you have queried your database. #30DayChartChallenge | Day 22 - New tool #dataviz 📊

dplyr::replace_when() and dplyr::recode_values() I am in you! The cognitive load and lines of code saved.... #rstats

Just released mori 0.1.0 on CRAN — a new R package for shared memory across processes. Parallel R no longer has to mean duplicating your dataset in every worker's RAM. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04... 🧵 1/3

Last chance — Posit AI live demo + Q&A is next week, April 29 at 11am EDT. R & Python workflows, inside Positron + RStudio. Register → events.zoom.us/ev/Ajss5j9Ve... #rstats #python

Announcing Shiny for Python 1.6! 🐍🔭 This update focuses on production-grade observability with OpenTelemetry and UI efficiency with toolbars for #Python data scientists. Read the full release notes: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...

I am excited beyond description to lift the veil on what we have been working on in 2026: Please meet ggsql! A new extension of the SQL language for creating visualisations using the grammar of graphics. Read all about it in the blog post or visit the website at ggsql.org

📮You've got mail! 💌 We are thrilled to invite you to "Where do R packages live?" a discussion with folks from the #R foundation, #CRAN #Bioconductor #R-universe and @posit.co. Let's learn from our panel about the ins-and-outs of where you might want to create a home for your R software 📦 1/n

I'm planning on a GIANT roxygen2 release in the near future (tons of bug fixes, improved R6 support, new S7 support, ...) so if you use for your packages, I'd really appreciate you trying it out and letting me know if you see any problems! github.com/r-lib/roxyge... #rstats

"Rick Rubin became this weird, like, that's who we all want to be, not Nate Silver." Benn Stancil on The Test Set talking about the death of data-driven culture. Vibezzzz. Listen on Spotify (open.spotify.com/episode/3Of7...) and Apple Podcasts (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...).

On May 12th, we’re showing a better way to work. Join Posit’s Matt Wallace for a deep-dive demo into Positron, our next-generation IDE, and how it handles the "Persistent Analysis Lifecycle" from end to end. Register here: posit.co/webinar/comp...

Posit AI is here — live inside Positron and RStudio. Come see it in action in a hands-on workflow demo. Real R & Python. No fluff. 🗓 April 29 · 11am EDT · Register → events.zoom.us/ev/Ajss5j9Ve... #rstats #python

Yesterday was a big day. The new posit.co is live. This is more than a new website. It's our commitment to showing up better for the customers, partners, and open source community that make Posit what it is. Take a look: posit.co

New blog post: Branded Figures and Tables in R and Python with Quarto. Style your figures and tables to match your brand automatically at render time, with light/dark mode support. mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2026-0... #Quarto #Python #RStats #Brand

We just released a blog post about something I'm very excited about: Great Docs. Post is in the *new* Posit Open Source site: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04... Great Docs is a #python pkg for creating beautiful Python package websites. We make it easy to use but also give you lots of options.

We just released raghilda to PyPi. Raghilda is a framework for building RAG systems in #python. See the release blogpost: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...

Quarto 2 is coming, and it’s a total rewrite in Rust. 🦀 The headline feature? Native collaborative editing. Don't choose between Google Docs ease and Git rigor! You get real-time, conflict-free collab directly in your .qmd files. #RStats #Python Coming soon! ✨ opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...

I have 99% switched from #rstats to #pydata as my job changed from analysis to data engineering. But I I was just analyzing survey results and trying to weave the result into a programmatically generated PDF. It was a struggle to get beautiful output in Python, the formatting of charts and text […]

Need a little whimsy in your quarto slides? Presenting quarto-revealjs-transitions with 100+ new slide transitions github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto

@sara-altman.bsky.social and I recently got together to compare Claude Code and Posit Assistant for data analysis with a recent #TidyTuesday release! The recording is now live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GI6...

The latest Glimpse newsletter is packed with open source #RStats and #Python updates from Posit! Quarto 1.9, introducing Great Docs, orbital 0.5.0, devtools uses pak, and more. Read it here: posit.co/blog/glimpse...

How does Posit Assistant compare to Claude Code for data analysis in #RStats? We put them side-by-side to show how the experience differs on three dimensions: 💻 R session access 📊 Plotting 🔍 Iterative EDA Watch the full comparison here! youtu.be/7GI6-4J0AXA