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...

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...

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

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...

We don't get much media coverage, but its bad out here. Its still only June and every day the sky is orange and every few days we're seeing towns evacuated.

Air 0.10.0 is out now! - Enforce `<-` or `=` throughout your #rstats code (only one of these is correct though 😉) - Tighter Positron and RStudio integration - pre-commit / prek support - stdin support - Install with uv, mise, or pixi Read all about it! opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

TidyDevDay 2026: bring your laptop, leave with a merged PR, new friends, and sharper R skills! First-time contributor? Perfect. Seasoned developer? Also perfect. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06... 📅 Sep 17, Houston, TX, after posit::conf(2026) 🕘 9 am - 4 pm 🎟️ luma.com/pnjuw08h #rstats #tidyverse

Join us in about an hour to hear from @jasminedaly.bsky.social about how she uses Claude Code for #rstats work!

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

It seems like LLMs are getting much better at faithfully describing data visualizations that show surprising trends. With @sara-altman.bsky.social on the @posit.co open source blog: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

Jasmine! Is! Excellent! As a human, as a data person, as a community member. Yes yes yes. Also, the SLC RUG (#rstats user group) is wonderful and usually VIRTUAL (this one is), which means you need not be in Utah to attend. And I don't think you need me to tell you Julia is a delight 🥰

Join the SLC RUG next Tues, June 23 about how @jasminedaly.bsky.social uses Claude Code in her work as an #rstats consultant! I'm really excited to learn more at this session 💫 www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...

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...

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...

Fable 5 is the new highest scorer on bluffbench! The eval measures models' ability to accurately describe plots that show counterintuitive patterns. Six months ago, the strongest models were still in the single digits. simonpcouch.github.io/bluffbench/

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 🎉

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!

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

This week on my substack: what is an agent open.substack.com/pub/tidydesi....

Must read. How Price could so misunderstand Drucker is well beyond me, thankfully Henry is on the case

"At last we have created the Corporation That Eliminates Middle Managers from classic management text Don't Eliminate the Middle Managers!" www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-isnt-ma...

In the last year, @posit.co has released one agent called Positron Assistant and another called Posit Assistant, which is kinda confusing. @sara-altman.bsky.social and I sat down to talk about how these agents compare and where they're headed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9P2...

Gemma 4 is now available for Posit AI subscribers! We've priced the model at a tenth of the per-token cost of Claude Sonnet, and are really impressed with its performance for quick data analysis tasks. posit.co/blog/gemma-4...

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 watching Nicola Rennie make cool TidyTuesday contributions for YEARS. It's gonna be such a privilege to get a peek inside her workflow (+ her tools & templates!) tomorrow at the DS Lab 🥹❤️ May 12 12PM ET To hang out, chat w/ data pals, & see Nicola's brain work, register here: pos.it/dslab

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.

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...

New post, featuring what I recently learnt about Git worktrees: masalmon.eu/2026/04/23/g...

📝 "Explore #TidyTuesday literary prizes with Positron’s Data Explorer" 👤 Julia Silge (@juliasilge.com) 🔗 https://juliasilge.com/blog/literary-prizes/ #rladies#rstats

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

A few months ago, any LLM that I could run on my Macbook scored 0% on an agentic coding eval I put together. This month's Qwen 3.5 and Gemma 4 releases both scored 90%. On my blog: simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-04...

I had the pleasure of speaking to students at both Duke University and Wake Forest University about the existential crisis that many of them are feeling right now: In the age of AI, is my degree worthless? www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kTx...

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...

Alright, Positron's data viewer has me sold—this is legitimately better than RStudio. The nice continuous/ordinal histograms and missing value percentages are actually quite helpful and have already replaced a lot of ... |> pull() |> hist() type workflows I used to use #RStats

I got native dev containers working in Positron! Blog post forthcoming, but for now, here's a minimal repo showing how it works: it uses Quarto and Typst and Docker to make a little PDF report github.com/andrewheiss/... (Positron documentation: positron.posit.co/dev-containe...) #rstats

When it comes to #Python type checkers and LSPs, we had a lot of options for what to bundle in Positron, our data science IDE! 🤯 Read through how we evaluated Pyrefly, ty, Basedpyright, and Zuban, and what we ended up deciding to use by default: positron.posit.co/blog/posts/2...

Our latest @posit.co AI Newsletter swaps the usual roundup for something different. @sara-altman.bsky.social and I traced the (brief) history of agents for data science at Posit, from Shiny Assistant to Databot to Positron Assistant to our latest release, Posit Assistant. posit.co/blog/2026-03...

protesting in this outfit is a real “heads I win, tails you lose” moment when it comes to the optics

We have summer internships y'all! Come work at Posit on the PyData, tidymodels, shiny, or Connect teams: grnh.se/tigz810a3us. You will have an awesome time, learn a ton, and help advance our open source and pro tools 🧰 #rstats #pydata

Anyone else spoiled by R's pkgdown and find python's mkdocs or sphinx a bit tedious and config-heavy. Check out @richmeister.bsky.social 's awesome new {great-docs} as a batteries-included alternative to spin up an effective docs site in <15 min! 1/n 🧵 github.com/posit-dev/gr...

ggplot defaults are bouba, matplotlib defaults are kiki

Wondering why Astral joined OpenAI? We recently hosted Charlie Marsh from Astral on The Test Set, where he discussed how AI agents were already reshaping Astral’s roadmap. If you want to hear where his head was at before the news broke, check out the episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Noxo...

Our latest blog post shows we can deploy boosted tree models, such as xgboost, lightgbm, or catboost, directly into the database itself! Running predictionsfrom an xgboost model on 2.1 million observations in less than 10 seconds! posit.co/blog/deployi... #rstats #tidymodels #mlops

I am so happy for this announcement!! Heather is such an incredible community partner and deeply knowledgeable of base R. This is great news for R core and the broader R community. 🎉❤️🙌🤩 #rstats

If you are a local SLC-area #rstats person, join us this coming Friday afternoon for an IRL networking gathering to chat all things data science! I shall be eating a fancy waffle 🧇 www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...

RStudio now has next edit suggestions! I wrote a bit about how they work and have open-sourced the eval we used to engineer the system's prompt: www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-03...

These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats