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Lionel Henry @lionelhenry.bsky.social · 15d

pkgload 1.4.1 is now on CRAN, with many fixes for the generation of `compile_commands.json`. If you write C/C++ code in your packages with Positron or VS Code (or any IDE with the clangd LSP), make sure to update. Thanks a lot to all contributors! #rstats

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Lionel Henry @lionelhenry.bsky.social · Jul 26

Hmm we don’t support hanging indents (at open paren) and have decided not to support them because they make it harder for screen readers to analyse code, which is an issue of accessibility.

That said we are missing an indent level in your video, I’ll open an issue about that and will make a fix.

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Jul 22

New blog post! @posit.co Positron doesn't use Rproj files tofor #rstats projects—instead you open folders in the IDE directly. Opening folders can be a little tricky though. This shortcut lets you right click on a folder in macOS Finder to open a it in Positron! www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/07...

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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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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Jun 4

Positron now supports a chat panel with Claude and it's pretty neat

Positron with a chat panel open with a question about fixing a ggplot plot

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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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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · May 12

Mastering typefaces and fonts in #rstats has always been harder than it should.

I have tried to collect much of my relevant knowledge in this deep-dive blog post so you can spend your time picking the right typeface instead of cursing at the computer

Fonts in R

Taking control of fonts and text rendering in R can be challenging. This deep-dive teaches you everything (and then some) you need to know to keep your sanity

www.tidyverse.org

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · Apr 8

For the last couple of months I've been working on something and I'm excited to finally share an early preview:

Say hello to plumber2 🎉

plumber2 is a full rewrite of the plumber package for creating powerful webapis in #rstats. It takes everything we have learned from plumber and adds even more

What the Package Does (One Line, Title Case)

What the package does (one paragraph).

posit-dev.github.io

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Posit @posit.co · Mar 20

We're delighted to announce Jonathan McPherson – software architect at Posit – as keynote speaker at posit::conf(2025)!

If you're curious about how thoughtful design principles can improve the data science tools you use, you won't want to miss this!

Join us Sep 16-18 in Atlanta. pos.it/conf

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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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Lionel Henry @lionelhenry.bsky.social · Feb 21

Yep it should not be hard to configure eglot to use Air

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Lionel Henry @lionelhenry.bsky.social · Feb 21

I'll try to join!

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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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Gabor Csardi @gaborcsardi.org · Feb 17

Which of these features would you like us to implement first in the nanoparquet R package?

See options below.

#RStats #parquet nanoparquet.r-lib.org

Read and Write Parquet Files

Self-sufficient reader and writer for flat Parquet files. Can read most Parquet data types. Can write many R data types, including factors and temporal types. See docs for limitations.

nanoparquet.r-lib.org

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Charlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · Feb 6

Parallelization just landed in the dev version of purrr: purrr.tidyverse.org/dev/referenc...

Really pleased that the mirai framework makes this possible.

Huge credit to the tidyverse maintainers @hadley.nz @lionelhenry.bsky.social and @davisvaughan.bsky.social !

#rstats #tidyverse

Parallelization in purrr — parallelization

purrr's map functions have a .parallel argument to parallelize a map using the mirai package. This allows you to run computations in parallel using more cores on your machine, or distributed over the ...

purrr.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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Simon P. Couch @simonpcouch.com · Dec 9

Introducing ensure, a new #rstats package for LLM-assisted unit testing in RStudio! Select some code, press a shortcut, and then the helper will stream testing code into the corresponding test file that incorporates context from your project.

github.com/simonpcouch/...

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Posit @posit.co · Nov 19

We are thrilled to announce that we have a new @posit.co Starter Pack, thanks to @jeremy-data.bsky.social!

Find and follow Posit people here: go.bsky.app/RxAPkGi

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George Stagg @gws.phd · Nov 6

I've written a series of blog posts about what I've been up to over the last few months! 📝

In the posts I talk about webR, R Shinylive, and a new Quarto extension for interactive code exercises.

Take a look if you're interested in the latest for R for WebAssembly.
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2024/10...

WebAssembly roundup part 1: webR 0.4.2 - Tidyverse

First in a series of blog posts about what's new in R for WebAssembly. The latest release of webR 0.4.2 is now available, with updates to the viewer mechanism, support for displaying htmlwidgets, an I...

www.tidyverse.org

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · Nov 7

S7 0.2.0 is now on CRAN, thanks primarily to the hard work of @t-kalinowski.bsky.social. S7 is a collaborative effort to supersede S3 and S4 and you can read all about it (and what's new in 0.2.0) at www.tidyverse.org/blog/2024/11... #rstats

S7 0.2.0 - Tidyverse

S7 is a new package that simplifies object-oriented programming (OOP) in R. It combines the simplicity of S3 with the structure of S4 to create a clearer system that's accessible to everyone.

www.tidyverse.org

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Lionel Henry @lionelhenry.bsky.social · Nov 4

you can set `options(rlang_trace_top_env = )` to a frame environment (the `environment()` of a currently running function) and the backtrace will go from there to the error site.

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Max kuhn @topepo.bsky.social · Oct 31

The video for my #PositConf2024 talk about evaluating censored regression #rstats models is at:

youtu.be/cm34R5aYUQ4?...

Here is a list for all of the talks: posit.co/blog/talks-a...

Evaluating Time-to-Event Models is Hard - posit conf 2024

YouTube video by Posit PBC

youtu.be

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Julia Silge @juliasilge.com · Oct 31

Our #PositConf2024 talk(s) on Positron are now available on YouTube! It was really special to get to introduce this new project to folks ❤️ and I'm excited this is broadly available now.

Take a look if you are curious about our new IDE:
youtu.be/8uRcB34Hhsw

Introducing Positron, a new data science IDE - posit conf 2024

YouTube video by Posit PBC

youtu.be

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Lionel Henry @lionelhenry.bsky.social · Oct 31

It's exposed at R level as `rlang::duplicate()`

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Lionel Henry @lionelhenry.bsky.social · Jan 18

withr 3.0.0 is on CRAN... with more base R inside! Read our notes at www.tidyverse.org/blog/2024/01... #rstats

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