The November 2026 posit::glimpse() newsletter covers Positron and Posit Assistant, rig, Great Tables, Shiny for Python, Quarto, AI updates, and new resources
This edition of the posit::glimpse() newsletter features updates from posit::conf(2026)
Monthly roundup of open source updates from Posit, featuring package releases, new resources, and highlights from upcoming conf talks
We compressed our nearly 500-page Polars book into a free two-page cheatsheet. Available as a printable PDF and an accessible HTML version
Monthly roundup of open-source updates for Posit’s community
Reflections from useR! 2026 in Warsaw - talking about CRDTs and collaborative editing coming to Quarto 2, increasing adoption of mirai and mori, and a day spent contributing to base R at R Dev Day
July 2026 roundup featuring major announcements and significant releases across the R, Python, and SQL ecosystem
Join us for a full day of collaborative open source work — whether you’re a seasoned contributor or making your very first pull request
Posit announces its membership in the Jupyter Foundation, deepening our commitment to the open-source tools that power scientific computing
Many of the most upvoted RStudio feature requests are already implemented in Positron, and we explore ten of them
Introducing the new home for Posit Open Source and many package and community updates
Announcing a new central hub that connects you to our open source software, blog posts, videos, events, and cheatsheets
We’re introducing new packages like ggsql and raghila, alongside major updates to Quarto and many other open-source packages
We’ve loved coming together to learn how community members are making Positron their own
Posit is sponsoring four summer internship positions in 2026
Videos of talks from posit::conf(2025) are posted, and you can find them all here!
Posit is hiring a Python open-source developer to create more data analysis tools
At posit::conf(2025) we hosted two Quarto workshops: Branded Websites, Presentations, Dashboards, and PDFs with Quarto; and Extending Quarto. The materials from both workshops are freely available for anyone to learn from or use in their own teaching
Join us in Atlanta for tidyverse developer day on September 19, 2025!
Tips and recommendations for learning the tidyverse with AI tools
Use Positron’s integrated color picker for an easy way to choose colors for your next project’s _brand.yml
I joined the ggplot2 team and would like to share the experience
The tidymodels team is sponsoring a summer internship in 2025
The “Includes” feature in Quarto lets you efficiently reuse content across multiple files. Combined with the “meta” shortcode, it enables you to set precise, file-specific values
Build a personal website with Quarto by following this four-part video series on YouTube
Learn how to build a Quarto dashboard with a three-part video series
Videos of talks from posit::conf(2024) are posted, we’ve compiled a playlist of Quarto talks for you!
Back in August, we hosted three Quarto workshops at posit::conf(2024); the materials from those workshops are available to learn and teach from!
On August 12, we’re hosting a day of workshops featuring three dedicated to Quarto at posit::conf(2024) in Seattle
Join the tidyverse team in Seattle on August 15 for a day of fun and programming to improve the tidyverse!
Recent releases integrate survival analysis into tidymodels. This now unlocks the framework for censored regression and provides modeling capabilities for time-to-event data
R/Medicine webinar on Quarto manuscripts
Recent tidymodels releases integrated a set of tools for assessing whether machine learning models treat groups of people differently
We are conducting our third tidymodels priorities survey. Please give us your feedback!
Series of workshops for learning Quarto with R and RStudio, aimed primarily at R Markdown users
Recommendations for teaching the tidyverse in 2023, summarizing package updates most relevant for teaching data science with the tidyverse, particularly to new learners
Jabir and Davon from Data Trail worked with us to create the solutions manual for R for Data Science, 2nd edition. This blog post summarizes their experience and shares their reflections from working on this project
The second edition of R for Data Science is out, and it’s a major reworking of the first edition
How to use purrr::walk() to write many files, featuring file-system navigation with the fs package
A video highlighting some of Quarto’s features that are especially useful for academics, as educators and as researchers
A new video for getting started with Quarto using R and RStudio
A few recent changes in CRAN requirements for packages containing C or C++ code have caused package developers some headaches. This post outlines the issues and provides solutions the tidyverse team has used to address them
Using another package as a dependency is a two-way street, but the expectations can be murky. This blog post guides you towards becoming a stellar reverse dependency
Davis Vaughan’s talk from rstudio::conf(2022) on clock, an R package that aims to provide comprehensive and safe handling of date-times
We’re hiring a Developer Educator for tidyverse package development and a Quarto Developer Advocate. Come work with us!
A workflow for upgrading to testthat edition 3: activation, deprecations, changes to warnings, messages, and comparisons
Over the past year and change we re-licensed the vast majority of tidyverse, tidymodels, and r-lib packages to use the MIT license. Here, we discuss the mechanics and rationale
We are renaming the default branch of many Git(Hub) repositories and this post explains how contributors can adapt, using new functionality in usethis
Dr. A. Nayena Blankson, Professor of Psychology at Spelman College, introduces the INSPIRE U2 Program and describes the 2021 partnership with RStudio. The INSPIRE U2 Program provides a learning pathway for underrepresented female students to enter advanced degrees and careers in statistical fields
We are conducting our second tidymodels priorities survey. Please give us your feedback!
The cpp11 summer intern reviews the process they used to convert readxl to using cpp11
Recommendations for teaching the tidyverse in 2021, summarizing package updates most relevant for teaching data science with the tidyverse, particularly to new learners
Many RStudio cheatsheets have been updated or reworked based on recent package updates, and we’ve updated the cheatsheet contribution process as well. You’ll also see some small changes to the cheatsheet website reflecting these changes
The tidymodels ecosystem is modular and flexible, which can sometimes make choosing an approach overwhelming for newcomers. This post offers opinionated guidance on where to start!
Recap of the 2021 ASA DataFest: 2,500+ students analyzing drug misuse survey data
In March of 2021, Epi-Interactive hosted one of the first in-person R events in Wellington, New Zealand. Here are some takeaways from their experience
A mentorship experience during undergrad opens up opportunities for learning about text analysis, as well as meta-skills like debugging and reproducibility
Last month, we conducted our first survey on mlverse software, covering topics ranging from area of application through software usage to user wishes and suggestions. In addition, the survey asked about thoughts on social impacts of AI/ML. This post presents the results, and tries to address some of the things that came up
Frustrations and possible solutions for online course development
Sparse data is common in many domains, and now tidymodels supports using sparse matrix structures throughout the fitting and tuning stages of modeling
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