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Posit @posit.co · 17/09/2026

posit::conf(2026) is outta here! 👋 From Wes McKinney's AI keynote to Quarto slides, Shiny apps, & termite colonies, Day 2 was radical. Share your photos and reflections with the hashtag #PositConf2026 ❤️ See you in Seattle Sept 13-15 for posit::conf(2027). Until then, keep it real!

A speaker wearing glasses, a black t-shirt, and dark jeans stands on a brightly lit stage during a presentation. Behind him, a large textured wall is illuminated in warm orange light, displaying white text that reads "posit conf(2026)". The silhouettes of audience members are visible in the dark foreground.

A crowded conference hall filled with people sitting at round tables during a lunch or networking session. Feather banners with numbers and the phrase "Birds of a Feather" mark different table sections throughout the room. In the foreground, several attendees are seated around a circular table with plates of food and drinks, engaged in conversation.

A woman wearing a pink conference t-shirt and a man with glasses leaning over a small round table at an event booth. The woman is holding a smartphone and smiling while looking at it with the man. On the table sits an open laptop facing away from the camera, along with small promotional materials. In the background, a large dark blue banner displays branding for "Posit Assistant" and "Positron" along with the text "Work as fast as you think."

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Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Headed to Houston for #positconf! I can’t overstate the impact that @posit.co’s opensource products & packages (RStudio, Positron, tidyverse) have had on me as a journalist & data nerd 🤓 Thrilled/terrified to be giving a keynote presentation on Tues. If you’re there, say hello! conf.posit.co/2026/

Keynote Session by Christine Zhang, Graphics Editor at The New York Times: How to Be Clear When You Can’t Be Certain
Sometimes, data visualization is about using charts to illustrate a key point or conclusion gleaned from analyzing the data. But what if you’re not sure what the conclusion is? Presenting examples from news reporting on the topics of elections, polling and economics, I will talk about how I have grappled with uncertainty and how to communicate it to the public.

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Gabor Csardi @gaborcsardi.org · 14/09/2026

New beta of #Rstats rig: LOTS of EXCITING stuff: - new: web site: rig.r-lib.org - new: user-mode R installation: rig.r-lib.org/admin-vs-use... - new: manage R packages (CRAN + git): rig.r-lib.org/pkg-guide.html - new: manage R projects and virtual environments: rig.r-lib.org/proj-guide.h...

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rig – the R Installation Manager – rig

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 10/09/2026

quarto-hub is really coming together, y'all! I'm so excited to share some of this with you at conf next week. Check out our upcoming collaborative wysiwyg editor working on a fully-styled Quarto 2 page:

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Julia Silge @juliasilge.com · 09/09/2026

The September release of #Positron went out last week, and I am so pleased to share what's new! ✨ We've got a new welcome page, the first version of importing data via the UI, improvements to Posit Assistant, surfacing package CVEs, and more: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-09...

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Positron September Release Highlights

Highlights from the 2026.09 release of Positron, including a redesigned welcome page, a first version of Import Data, new Posit Assistant features, expanded Data Connections, package vulnerability sca...

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Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D. @mickael.canouil.fr · 04/09/2026

It has been released. (Announcement will come on Monday) You write raw Typst as code block, raw code block, or code cell (Typst Render Quarto extension)? Now, you can do so without leaving your Quarto document in VSCode and Positron via Quarto Wizard. #Typst #Quarto #QuartoPub #Positron #VSCode

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Isabella Velásquez @ivelasq3.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Want to watch the crashiest crash course on custom themes for VS Code/Positron?! At a Data Science Lab with @libbyheeren.bsky.social, I attempted to go through the steps in 15 min. I also mixed up nvim and nvm, pobody's nerfect 😬 Watch it here! Make something cool~ youtu.be/yXYGhRCSEL4?...

me presenting on creating a custom theme extension for VS Code/Positron

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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Look, I'm new to package debugging (infinitely more complex than homespun functions), but I'm genuinely impressed with Positron debugging tools. I can step through the call stack? See what variables are in scope at each stage??? I think I'm in love.

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 25/08/2026

hey hey hey I got Positron Server working through JupyterHub running on a DigitalOcean droplet thanks to Posit's Positron for Education license positron.posit.co/education.html - I have a few iPad-only students this semester and now they can use Positron like the rest of the class #rstats

Screenshot of Positron, but in a browser

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 23/08/2026

Also excited for this one bc I’m teaching it with Positron for the first time, rather than RStudio, so inshallah things work smoothly 🤞

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Jonathan @jmcphers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

My favorite little feature from the Positron 2026.08 release: we now check your R scripts (and Python scripts, Quarto files, etc.) to see if they refer to any packages/modules that are needed to run the script but aren't installed. If they do, you'll get a little notification and an install button!

A screenshot of the Positron editor showing an R script that loads libraries, and a notification showing that a library needs to be installed.

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Project Jupyter @jupyter.org · 04/08/2026

@posit.co Positron Server is now free for academic JupyterHub with a teaching license. Students get a full data science IDE (Python/R, debugger, data viewer) in-browser, no install needed. blog.jupyter.org/positron-ser...

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Nick Strayer @nstrayer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Positron Notebook Editor is out of beta and ready for all your notebook workflows! I am super proud of the work the team did to build this notebook experience from scratch. Something we decided was necessary to have a fantastic notebook experience for data science.

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Ryan Johnson @ryjohnson09.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Interested in giving Positron a try? 🚀 We just launched a free, self-paced learning path covering: 🔹 UI navigation 🔹 Working with data 🔹 Running & managing code 👉 Start here: academy.posit.co/path/introdu... #DataScience #Positron #RStats #Python

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Theo @theukka.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

TIL you can move the Activity Bar to the top of the sidebar. Great when working with laptops. Spotted from @hadley.nz setup in @posit.co Data Science Lab

Screenshot of the Positron IDE with the activity bar positioned horizontally at the top of the window, below the menu and toolbar, instead of the default vertical sidebar. Icons for Explorer, Search, Extensions, Source Control, Debug, and GitHub run left to right.

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 14/07/2026

Neat. Positron now recognizes a pyproject.toml, offers to build an environment with one click using uv 🚀 opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...

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Julia Silge @juliasilge.com · 13/07/2026

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...

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Positron July Release Highlights

Highlights from the 2026.07 release of Positron, including the new Notebook editor, Packages pane, and Posit Assistant all reaching general availability.

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This is a fabulous chance to learn from @ivelasq3.bsky.social (and I'd jump at any chance you get to do so!!) If you're an R-Studio #rstats user who'd like a friendly intro to Positron in a relaxed, questions-welcome atmosphere, we got you.

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Posit @posit.co · 10/07/2026

A full-day Python workshop at posit::conf(2026) on September 14: Polars, Plotnine, Great Tables, and Scikit-Learn, built around a single case study and taught in Positron. Several workshops are filling. Houston, September 14–16. posit.co/conference

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isabel z @isabelizimm.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

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...

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Positron + uv: Python setup in one click

Exploring the Positron features that use uv to enable Python installation and management.

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 08/07/2026

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

An excel file of R's penguins data loaded into the data viewer in Positron

A screenshot of an image set to be 5x3 in the Quarto chunk options, automatically displaying as 5x3 in the plot panel

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 02/07/2026

Read this incredibly useful post by Community Engineer Steffi LaZerte if you write prose in Quarto or R Markdown! I begged her to write it so I could duplicate her spellcheck, formatting and grammar linting config. (Also, note that we reset the @ropensci.org account, give it a re-follow!) #RStats

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Posit @posit.co · 29/06/2026

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...

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Posit @posit.co · 24/06/2026

Announcing Toolbars for Shiny! Managing limited screen real estate for filters, controls, or AI components is a challenge. Toolbars addresses this by with a compact, low-profile UI container for headers, footers, and text inputs. See #RStats & #Python examples: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05...

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Introducing Toolbars: Supercharge your Cards and Inputs

New compact components in bslib and py-shiny for fitting buttons, selects, and other inputs into tight spaces.

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Jesse Casman @jcasman.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

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

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Carson Sievert (he/him) @cpsievert.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

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...

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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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Julia Silge @juliasilge.com · 16/06/2026

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...

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A brief and biased history of Posit data science agents

What we learned from Positron Assistant and Databot

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Posit @posit.co · 12/06/2026

Coding agents like Claude Code are great at general-purpose work. Posit Assistant is built specifically for data: #RStats / #Python session access, plots in the chat, and specialized data analysis capabilities. Post + video: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

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Posit Assistant is specialized for data work

What distinguishes Posit Assistant from general-purpose agents like Claude Code for data work.

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Jonathan @jmcphers.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

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...

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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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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

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 🎉

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tj mahr 🤘 @tjmahr.com · 09/06/2026

okay it wasnt just me "Positron now caches previously discovered system interpreters, dramatically speeding up startup in new folders and projects [...]. On Windows, we fixed multi-minute startup delays by skipping slow PATH discovery by default [...]" opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

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Positron June Release Highlights

Highlights from the 2026.06 release of Positron, including faster startup and migrating to Posit Assistant.

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Julia Silge @juliasilge.com · 08/06/2026

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...

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Positron June Release Highlights

Highlights from the 2026.06 release of Positron, including faster startup and migrating to Posit Assistant.

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

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!

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François Michonneau @francoismichonneau.net · 03/06/2026

If you want to learn more Positron, we have some free live training session coming up, including one tomorrow June 4th. In about 90 minutes you'll get to try out the AI features that make data science faster. Register on the new Posit Academy site: academy.posit.co/positron-ai-...

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Positron AI Workshop

Learn the basics of the Positron IDE and get hands-on with its various AI features to seamlessly import, clean, and analyze data.

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 04/06/2026

yessss most recent #QuartoPub Positron/VS Code extension has a couple neat features! #rstats #databs - Toggle code chunks in the outline! - Rainbow highlighting for nested pandoc divs!

Command palette in Positron with the Toggle Code Cells in Outline option selected

An outline of a .qmd file without any code cells in it!

Nested pandoc divs like

::::: {.columns}

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::: {.text}

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And the colons are highlighted with different colors

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I'd like to make positron look as much like RStudio as possible, do people have settings/configs that they feel approaches something like this? #rstats #positron

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermw.com · 16/04/2026

Make a mess of your {targets} pipeline over time? Spark joy and reorganize it with the VS Code/Positron ext. 🌳tarborist! Tarborist now has the ability to reorder your pipeline based on the graph's hierarchy, so the target order matches the underlying pipeline. github.com/tylermorganw... #RStats

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Sara Stoudt @sastoudt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I'm finally getting around to making this switch. Hoping to connect with #rstats folks and get back into #TidyTuesday.

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Simon P. Couch @simonpcouch.com · 21/05/2026

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...

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Comparing Posit Assistant and Positron Assistant

YouTube video by Posit PBC

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Julia Silge @juliasilge.com · 11/05/2026

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...

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Positron May Release Highlights

Highlights from the 2026.05 release of Positron, including a new Packages pane and inline output for Quarto.

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Joachim Schork @joachimschork.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The newly released Posit Assistant is changing the way we can work with R and Python. It is an AI assistant integrated directly into the RStudio and Positron IDEs. New Statistics Globe Hub module: statisticsglobe.com/hub #rstats #python #ai #datascience #statistics #rstudio #statisticsglobehub

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Griffin Shelor @gshelor.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Super pumped about this, I’ve been waiting for something like this ever since I started using positron

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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

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.

Positron IDE showing bird_card.R open in the editor, with library calls for ebird, mggick, and ggplot2. A purple arrow annotation points to the Packages pane on the left, which lists installed R packages. The terminal panel at the bottom shows the script being sourced with dplyr attaching.

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 05/05/2026

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

Screenshot from Positron showing all my installed R packages that contain "gg"

Screenshot from Positron showing all my installed Python packages that contain "py"

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Posit @posit.co · 27/04/2026

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

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Downloads: RStudio Desktop

Download the open-source RStudio Desktop IDE for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Be more productive with R and Python using our powerful editor, debugger, and plotting tools.

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