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Maëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 20d

Thrilled to have teamed up with @cderv.bsky.social & Zhian N. Kamvar for this post on @ropensci.org:

✨ All the Ways to Programmatically Edit or Parse R Markdown / Quarto Documents ✨

ropensci.org/blog/2025/09...

It's even available in French and Spanish (🙏 @yabellini.bsky.social)

#RStats

All the Ways to Programmatically Edit or Parse R Markdown / Quarto Documents

Overview of programmatic ways to analyze and edit Markdown files: Markdown, R Markdown, Quarto, Hugo files, you name it.

ropensci.org

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Posit @posit.co · Aug 29

Introducing Databot: an AI assistant for exploratory data analysis in #Python and #RStats!

A research preview in Positron, Databot is a tireless pair programmer to help you explore data.

Learn more about this tool and our philosophy behind it:

🤖 posit.co/blog/introdu...
⚠️ posit.co/blog/databot...

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Christophe Dervieux @cderv.bsky.social · Aug 28

I'll be talking about Quarto at PyData in September.

Focus will be on how Quarto can be used to get your Notebooks Analysis to the world easily, and under different forms.

Don't hesitate to share anything you would like me to tackle, and if it relates I am happy to !

And maybe see you there !

PyData Paris @pydataparis.bsky.social · Aug 15

📢 Talk Announcement

"From Jupyter Notebook to Publish-Ready Report: Effortless Sharing with Quarto", by @cderv.bsky.social from @posit.co.

📜 Talk info: pretalx.com/pydata-paris-2025/talk/K7CAAE
📅 Schedule: pydata.org/paris2025/schedule
🎟 Tickets: pydata.org/paris2025/tickets

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Posit @posit.co · Aug 28

New from Posit! The August Glimpse newsletter is here, featuring the new free IDE Positron, complete with LLM-powered tools Positron Assistant and Databot. Plus, updates to Quarto and Shiny for Python!

Check out the post here: posit.co/blog/posit-g...

#RStats #Python

An abstract pattern of interlocking hexagons, with a central group of colorful and detailed hexagons featuring various logos, characters, and text.

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Posit @posit.co · Aug 21

posit::conf(2025) is serving up tailored content for pros from #Pharma, #Finance, #PublicSector, #Education, #Healthcare, and more. 🔬📊🩺📚

Live in Atlanta or livestreaming from home, you’re invited.

📅 Sept 17–18 | Register at posit.co/conf

#PositConf2025 #OpenSource #RStats #Python

People laughing and chatting by the birds of a feather sign at posit::conf

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · Aug 20

Happy to announce ✨quarto-revealjs-editable✨

This fully supersedes the imagemover extension, as I back then didn't realize the potential. You can now also move, resize, change font size and alignment for text in your slides

github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
#quarto #slidecrafting

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Christophe Dervieux @cderv.bsky.social · Jul 28

Always happy to help !

A complex use case with Quarto - a good story for a blog post and probably for a talk at conferences.

Your journey with this is insightful - and will be for many.

Thanks for sharing back with us on Discussion board!

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Christophe Dervieux @cderv.bsky.social · Jul 28

I’ve been working on an update to the #quarto R package for weeks. I hope it improves your #rstats workflow with Quarto.

Lots of new helpers and tooling beyond the usual CLI wrappers. I believe some functions will be really useful!

Looking forward to your feedback!

github.com/quarto-dev/q...

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Posit @posit.co · Jul 8

Still thinking about that bear? 🐻 If you haven't yet, catch @hadley.nz on Ep. 1 of #TheTestSet! He dives into spreadsheets, R's early days, & the tidyverse origin.

🎧 Listen at thetestset.co, on Spotify, or Apple Podcasts

#DataScience #RStats #PodcastLaunch

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Christophe Dervieux @cderv.bsky.social · Jul 1

First of many interesting stories shared in the #TheTestSet !!
Enjoy 🎧 or 🖥️ !

Posit @posit.co · Jul 1

Ever wonder how the #tidyverse came to be? 🤔

#TheTestSet's first episode features @hadley.nz on his accidental empire of #RStats packages, bear encounters, and more!

Stream it at thetestset.co, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts.

#DataAnalytics #PodcastLaunch

Hadley Wickham in a white t-shirt and jeans sits on a light-colored couch across from Michael Chow, wearing a dark green shirt and pants, who is seated on an orange pouf. Between them is a white coffee table with books. In the background, there's a dark bar with shelves displaying numerous bottles, a wood-paneled wall, and a black, modern fireplace. Text overlay reads "Hadley Wickham CHIEF SCIENTIST, POSIT".

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Posit @posit.co · Jun 18

Data science junkies, get ready! 🚀 "The Test Set" #podcast trailer is here for your viewing pleasure.

Tune in July 1st and every Tuesday after for new episodes with hosts @mchow.com, @hadley.nz, and @wesmckinney.com as they welcome thought leaders in #DataScience.

Subscribe now: pos.it/thetestset

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Posit @posit.co · Jun 17

Thrilled to share Drew Coughlin's project! Build LLM-powered Shiny dashboards with Posit's multilingual querychat. 🤖

It lets LLMs understand your data privately and converts plain language to SQL. Drew's ultra-runner app is a great demo!

Check it out: posit.co/blog/race-st...

#RStats #Python

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Christophe Dervieux @cderv.bsky.social · Jun 13

You've heard about brand.yml support in #Quarto, but you do not really know much about what this new brand theming stuff is? And why again a new theming system?

Then this is the opportunity for you to learn more by listening to @grrrck.xyz in this @rfortherestofus.com podcast!

R for the Rest of Us @rfortherestofus.com · Jun 13

Garrick Aden-Buie shares in the latest R for the Rest of Us podcast how his frustration led to creating brand.yml, a simple solution for unifying data science workflow aesthetics.

Check out the detailed brand.yml walk-through: buff.ly/Ybu6rF9

#rstats #Shiny #Quarto #DataDesign #Branding

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Charlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · Jun 13

Bleeding edge update for the #tidyverse purrr package with even more seamless #rstats parallel maps.

Introducing our shiniest new adverb: `in_parallel()`. Just wrap your function to take advantage of blazing fast parallel processing via mirai.

pak::pak("tidyverse/purrr")

purrr.tidyverse.org/dev/

Functional Programming Tools

A complete and consistent functional programming toolkit for R.

purrr.tidyverse.org

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Christophe Dervieux @cderv.bsky.social · Jun 9

Pretty cool!
Did you need to manually fix the syntax for the .qmd document?
Or does Claude Code already know well how to write Quarto Presentation slides?

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · Jun 3

At Posit, we love @typst.app:

⚡ Make PDFs in milliseconds, not minutes
✨ The power of LaTeX with today's technologies
✍️ Modern typography (including emojis!)
🧠 Clear mental model

So I'm thrilled to announce that we're now supporting its development: posit.co/blog/posit-a...

#rstats

Posit

We’re happy to announce that we’re supporting Typst by funding one of their full-time engineers.

posit.co

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Charlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · May 23

mirai - minimalist async framework for #RStats - released as an 'r-lib' package.

Blog post: Advancing Async Computing in R.
shikokuchuo.net/posts/26-mir...

mirai provides event-driven async for #RShiny and parallel processing for purrr #tidyverse.

Really excited to be working on this at Posit!

shikokuchuo{net}: mirai 2.3.0

Advancing Async Computing in R

shikokuchuo.net

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Christophe Dervieux @cderv.bsky.social · May 23

Cette semaine, j'ai eu l'occasion de présenter une nouvelle fonctionnalité de #quarto lors des Rencontres R à Mons, en Belgique :

Comment personnaliser ses documents HTML et PDF avec Quarto grâce au fichier _brand.yml !

Curieux ? ▶️ cderv.github.io/rr2025-quart...

Hâte de découvrir vos usages !

Personnaliser ses documents Quarto avec _brand.yml

cderv.github.io

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Christophe Dervieux @cderv.bsky.social · May 21

Resources for the recommendation:
latex-project.org/news/latex2e...

Also in this blog post: www.texdev.net/2024/11/05/e...

latex-project.org

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Christophe Dervieux @cderv.bsky.social · May 21

Update for #quarto users producing PDF with LaTeX

Since Quarto 1.8.10, the default PDF engine is now LuaLaTeX instead of XeLaTeX.

This follows the recommendation in LaTeX NEWS issue 40, Nov. 2024, from the “LATEX Tagged PDF” project.

Please, try it out. We don't expect much impact, though.

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Christophe Dervieux @cderv.bsky.social · May 8

Nice trick ! Can you open an issue in the repo so that we can add this rule and fix in quarto ?
You can ping me there.

This would need to be using SCSS with the right variable for the block header background.

Christophe Dervieux @cderv.bsky.social · Mar 27

Hey #Quarto users !

Next v1.7 release is coming soon !

Part of the updates are about Pandoc 3.6.3 bundling with updated LaTeX templates.

Latest pre-release 1.7.19 have this change: github.com/quarto-dev/q...

If you are a #quarto extension developer, please try this out!

Docs update soon.

Release v1.7.19 · quarto-dev/quarto-cli

Changelog since last release: v1.7.18...v1.7.19 Full 1.7 changelog up to this version: View: https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/blob/v1.7.19/news/changelog-1.7.md Download: https://github...

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Aaron Jacobs @atheriel.bsky.social · Feb 25

I want to highlight that v0.1.1 of {ellmer} has been on CRAN for a few weeks now. This version includes a ton of improvements when using an LLM hosted on Azure, AWS, Databricks, or Snowflake from #rstats -- which is pretty common in enterprise settings. 🧵
ellmer.tidyverse.org/news/index.h...

Changelog

ellmer.tidyverse.org

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · Feb 21

@lionelhenry.bsky.social and I are so excited to finally announce Air - an extremely fast R code formatter! 🎉

With Air, you'll never need to worry about styling your #rstats code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest.

www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...

Air, an extremely fast R formatter

We are thrilled to announce Air, a new R formatter.

www.tidyverse.org

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Posit @posit.co · Jan 16

We're delighted to announce Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social – psychologist for software teams – will be a keynote speaker at posit::conf(2025)!

Discover psychology tips for better dev teams and much more at conf. Register at pos.it/conf

#PositConf2025 #DataScience #OpenSource #Python #RStats

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