I hate that “an SQL query” and “a SQL query” might be both correct.

AI is expensive, but we're doing our best to make it available as cheaply as possible.

We’re excited to launch the Posit Open Source website! 🚀 We’ve unified 15+ years of tools, 900+ blogs, and 1,600+ videos in one place. Explore it here: opensource.posit.co Huge thanks to the team: @cwick.co.nz Greg Swinehart @hadley.nz @ivelasq3.bsky.social @jeroenjanssens.com

I've been thinking that not only did I learn to code before AI, I learned to code before StackOverflow, and even before the internet. Does anyone else remember implementing computer games by typing code out of an Usborne book?

#RStats x #Weaving Houndstooth digital weaving in color! #loom @weaving

I'm bringing my substack back to life to talk about AI and data science: open.substack.com/pub/tidydesi.... I have conflicted feelings about both AI and writing about AI but I want to try and work through them in the open, and I hope you'll join me on this journey.

We have an open data science role on our team. The role is in our Cupertino office (no remote) and is open only in the US. More details: jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...

I spent the past semester building interactive teaching apps with AI-assisted coding. I used my personal website to share them with my students, but that makes them hard to find for other educators. So I built Galvoro — galvoro.app

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...

Are you at #PyConUS? So is Posit! Find us at our unmissable sign!!

✍️ 15 Years of rOpenSci, and We’re Just Getting Started 🎉 by The rOpenSci Team rOpenSci turns 15! 🎉 We're celebrating all year long, starting with three virtual community events on June. Come connect, reflect, and help shape the next 15 years […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

I'm please to celebrate that legendry 0.3.0 has hit the streets on CRAN 🎉 Legendry is a ggplot2 extension that lets you draw more guides. Read about all the guide goodness in this minor update here: teunbrand.github.io/teunbrand_bl... #rstats #ggplot2

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.

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...

odbc 1.7.0, an #rstats pkg that allows users to connect to ODBC databases, is now on CRAN! This release tightens integration with Databricks and Snowflake, in addition to a few provider-agnostic bug fixes. github.com/r-dbi/odbc/r...

I have loved working with @ropensci.org so much! ❤️ For the qualtRics package specifically, we are currently looking for a new maintainer as I no longer deal with Qualtrics as part of my daily work. If you are a user of both #rstats and Qualtrics, let's chat: github.com/ropensci/qua...

Closing the loop on last week's Portable #rstats post. Hadley reached out, the conversation went well, attribution is fixed, and the ecosystem gets maintained Portable R builds. Longer update on the blog... blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/posts/closin...

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 💚

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...

Super excited to get this at my door today! Ursula Laa and my book on exploring high-d data and models is in print! Book website is www.routledge.com/Interactivel... if interested I think my 30% discount code might work for you - msg me. Time to update dicook.github.io/mulgar_book/ too! #rstats

A lot of people like to play computer games. I like to play computer games too. My favorite is dump a couple gigabytes of CSV files on my computer and let me fuck around until I find out.

DATA SCIENTIST JOB ALERT 🚨 My friend is looking for a new data scientist to join her team. Details in link. Must be NY based. If you’re interested or have questions, send me a note! #careers #hiring #data jobs.ashbyhq.com/graphite/08f...

The newest release of Posit Assistant, an agent for coding and data analysis, includes a "data cleaning mode." When enabled, the agent will run quality checks and surface decisions about e.g. import issues, factor levels, etc to the user. In the AI Newsletter: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05...

🗞️ 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...

I felt a strange burning sensation over my entire body when I entered this building

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

We are pleased to announce that Mikael Jagan has joined the R Core Team. #RStats He has been an active contributor to the R project for several years, proposing bug fixes and enhancements. Further, he has been co-authoring/maintaining the important Matrix package and more recently lme4 and glmmTMB.

What (non GitHub-based) tools are people using for comments on #QuartoPub blogs/websites these days? The only built-in option that doesn't require GitHub seems to be hypothesis (web.hypothes.is) which isn't really what I'm looking for. Any suggestions welcome!

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...

🎉 JOSS turns 10 today! Ten years, 3,500+ papers, 11,000+ authors, 4000+ reviewers, and a community that built something remarkable together. Thank you to everyone who's reviewed, edited, authored, or cheered us on along the way 💚 joss.theoj.org #openscience #opensource

Before you run update.packages() — check what changed first. Diffify offers side-by-side diffs for R and Python packages. NEWS, dependencies, functions, arguments. Free, no sign-up. diffify.com #RStats #Python

Today marks 50 years since John Chambers and Rick Becker presented a new project to colleagues at Bell Labs - an interactive environment that became the S language. For more details, see the #RStats blog entry "S at 50": blog.r-project.org/2026/05/05/s...

Tomorrow's DS Lab is going to be truly ✨magical✨ as we are joined by @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social, who will be showing the Quarto extensions that he's been building to make your slides more engaging, beautiful, and effective! 📆 Tomorrow, May 5 at 12pm ET Register here! pos.it/dslab

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 am most excited that @inheritParams now supports explicit inclusion and exclusion 🎉 #rstats #' @inheritParams other_fn x y #' @inheritParams other_fn -z

roxygen2 8.0.0 out now: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05... ! So many goodies in this release including S7 support, tons of R6 improvement, a new config style, fewer dependencies, and so so many bug fixes #rstats

Have you ever read Advanced R? adv-r.hadley.nz Some of my colleagues and I are currently reading it together, book-club style! 📖 None of us are programmers, but we all wanted to gain a deeper understanding of how R works. A few of our notes, a few chapters in:

I’ve been experimenting with embedding a Shiny app directly inside my Quarto presentations. Instead of moving through static slides, the audience can now actively engage with data in real time. It changes the dynamic from “here’s what I found” to “let’s explore this together.” #RStats #Quarto

This week's #TidyTuesday is about agricultural tariffs in the US. Today I've been working some more on #ggsql, so here is a ggsql plot! Code: gist.github.com/georgestagg/...

A cool looking job opening at the NY times! job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti... #rstats

Simon Urbanek of #rstats is one of the many deserving new ASA Fellows. Congratulations! 🎉

Positron may be out of beta since last July, but I've only just recently transitioned my R workflow from RStudio ➡️ Positron and I LOVE IT. For other RStudio users who may not have dabbled yet, here are some of the reasons I haven't opened my beloved RStudio in months 😮

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...

R version 4.6.0 "Because it was There" (source version) has been released. It should be on CRAN by now. #rstats The choice of codename is in remembrance of R Core member Tomàš Kalibera (1978-2026). Among many other things, he was a keen mountain climber.

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 📊

🌊 Level up your R skills in Visby, Aug 10–20! 🏰 #RaukR Data Science with R Summer School. Instructors including jennybryan.bsky.social & cderv.bsky.social. Join ~300 happy alumni! Registration deadline soon! raukr.nbis.se #RStats #Bioinformatics #RaukR #DataScience #SciLifeLab nbis.se #NBIS

✨ The useR! 2026 Diversity Scholarship is open! We provide financial support to underrepresented groups in the #RStats community. We offer: 🎫 Registration waivers ✈️ Full needs-based grants (travel/lodging) ⏳ Apply by May 10! Find links in the comment below!

I managed to install panache (panache.bz) and for now I only got it to do one thing, but it is one thing that is really nice to do with a one liner: put every sentence in a quarto document on a newline. So the economy of a paragraph is visible at a glance. #writing #quarto