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posit.co
August starts with fresh open-source drops from Posit!

• Shiny for #RStats & #Python updates
• ir 0.1.0: CLI tool for self-describing R scripts
• mcptools: R SDK for MCP, now on CRAN
• Quarto 1.10: Built-in accessibility checks

Read the roundup in Glimpse: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-08...
posit::glimpse() Newsletter – August 2026
Monthly roundup of open-source updates for Posit's community.
opensource.posit.co
August 5, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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posit.co
tidyclust 0.3.0 is out! 🎈

Three new clustering algorithms (DBSCAN, Gaussian mixtures, mean shift) plus native tidymodels integration for #RStats users.

Learn more: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...
tidyclust 0.3.0
tidyclust 0.3.0 is now on CRAN. This release adds support for DBSCAN, Gaussian Mixtures, and Mean Shift Models, plus closer alignment with the tidymodels framework.
opensource.posit.co
July 21, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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andrew.heiss.phd
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 "Preview Format…" dropdown menu A screenshot of an image set to be 5x3 in the Quarto chunk options, automatically displaying as 5x3 in the plot panel
July 7, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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posit.co
Announcing updates to the #RStats torch ecosystem! 🔥

• torch 0.17.0: No global CUDA system installations required
• torchvision 0.9.0: New computer vision architectures
• Built-in dataset cataloging and better memory management

Learn more: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...
torch hex logo
June 16, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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andrew.heiss.phd
I recently had to make a static photo gallery with #QuartoPub and used PhotoSwipe (which is neat!) so I decided to plugin-ize it to make it easier to use elsewhere, so behold, quarto-static-photo-gallery! andrewheiss.github.io/quarto-stati...
Example masonry layout of images Masonry layout controlled by shortcode options Grid layout where all the images are squares Zoomed in image of Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem, with metadata (including EXIF data!) in the caption below
June 12, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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posit.co
Announcing (the first-ever) tidymodels cheatsheets! 📊✨

After almost 8 years, tidymodels finally has not just one, but two cheatsheets!

Check out these clean, visual guides for recipes (preprocessing) and parsnip (modeling) in #RStats.

Learn more here: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...
tidymodels Cheatsheets
Two new cheatsheets for Tidymodels are now available: one for creating models with parsnip, and one for preprocessing data with recipes.
opensource.posit.co
May 27, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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mickael.canouil.fr
Gribouille v0.1.0: a Grammar of gGraphics for Typst.
Modelled on ggplot2, drawn on cetz.

Declare plots with aes, geom-*, facet-wrap and themes; compose hoists a shared legend.
One toolchain, data straight to PDF.

mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2026-0...

#typst #rstats #grammarOfGraphics #ggplot2 #cetz
May 21, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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andrew.heiss.phd
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"
May 5, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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posit.co
Quarto 2 is coming, and it’s a total rewrite in Rust. 🦀

The headline feature? Native collaborative editing. Don't choose between Google Docs ease and Git rigor! You get real-time, conflict-free collab directly in your .qmd files. #RStats #Python

Coming soon! ✨ opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...
What's next: Quarto 2
We've started working on [`quarto-dev/q2`](https://github.com/quarto-dev/q2/), a full rewrite of Quarto in Rust.
opensource.posit.co
April 15, 2026 at 2:13 PM
vhgauto.bsky.social
#TidyTuesday Capital accionario de empresas de Brasil, de acuerdo con el tamaño de la compañía.

Script: vhgauto.github.io/tidytuesday/...

#Rstats #dataviz #datavisualization
Círculos concéntricos de diferente radio, proporcional al capital accionario de microemprendimientos (el más chico, 1,4B reales), otros (21,3B reales) y pequeños emprendimientos (el más grande, 27,3B reales).
March 2, 2026 at 12:00 PM
vhgauto.bsky.social
#TidyTuesday Selección de imágenes de Astronomy Picture of the Day relacionadas con Argentina.

Script: vhgauto.github.io/tidytuesday/...

#Rstats #dataviz #datavisualization
February 26, 2026 at 12:30 PM
vhgauto.bsky.social
#TidyTuesday Lenguajes de África, ordenados por cantidad de personas que los hablan.

Script: vhgauto.github.io/tidytuesday/...

#Rstats #dataviz #datavisualization
February 21, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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jonthegeek.com
@dslc.io welcomes you to week 6 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring This week we're getting ready for the 2026 Winter Olympics!!

📁 https://tidytues.day/2026/2026-02-10
🗞️ https://www.olympics.com/en/milano-cortina-2026/schedule

#RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds
Logo for the #TidyTuesday Project. The words TidyTuesday, A weekly data project from the Data Science Learning Community (dslc.io) overlaying a black paint splash. TidyTuesday is a weekly social data project. All are welcome to participate! Please remember to share the code used to generate your results! TidyTuesday is organized by the Data Science Learning Community. Join our Slack for free online help with R and other data-related topics, or to participate in a data-related book club! How to Participate Data is posted to social media every Monday morning. Follow the instructions in the new post for how to download the data. Explore the data, watching out for interesting relationships. We would like to emphasize that you should not draw conclusions about causation in the data. Create a visualization, a model, a shiny app, or some other piece of data-science-related output, using R or another programming language. Share your output and the code used to generate it on social media with the #TidyTuesday hashtag. A table of event counts by day. Each row is a sport, each column represents a date. The body of the table counts the number of events for each sport on a given day.
February 9, 2026 at 2:19 PM
vhgauto.bsky.social
#TidyTuesday Autores literarios con textos navideños.

Script: vhgauto.github.io/tidytuesday/...

#Rstats #dataviz #datavisualization
Grilla con 28 imágenes de autores, con nombre completo, año de nacimiento y muerte, y títulos navideños.
January 27, 2026 at 2:06 PM
vhgauto.bsky.social
#TidyTuesday Clasificación de lenguajes en Argentina.

Script: vhgauto.github.io/tidytuesday/...

#RStats #dataviz #datavisualization
Mapa de Argentina a la izquierda de la figura, con una columna dividida en 5 categorías: extinto, moribundo, sin riesgo, sustitución y amenazado. Cada categoría contiene los lenguajes asociados.
January 23, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social
Finished the first draft of the "too many" section of my book Feature Engineering A-Z! This section covers the methods you would want to use if you have problems with too many predictors, including feature selection and dimensionality reduction

feaz-book.com/too-many #rstats #pydata
Feature Engineering A-Z | Too Many Overview
feaz-book.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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juliasilge.com
The latest release of #Positron has a TOTAL REVAMP of the integration to GitHub Copilot, which solves a ton of auth problems!

In this screencast, I walk through how to set up Positron Assistant 🤖 to use GitHub Copilot as a model provider:

youtu.be/T8dCQ6iIFXo
Use GitHub Copilot with Positron Assistant
YouTube video by Julia Silge
youtu.be
January 20, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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iamreddave.bsky.social
Cheeseburgers are not natural.
My Graph is up on Reddit www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
January 8, 2026 at 10:08 AM
vhgauto.bsky.social
#TidyTuesday Rotondas presentes en Benavidez, Partido de Tigre, Provincia de Buenos Aires.

Script: vhgauto.github.io/tidytuesday/...

#Rstats #dataviz #datavisualisation
Mapa de polígonos de Benavídez, Tigre, Buenos Aires, en tonos de grises, indicando en celeste 8 rotondas. El mapa cuenta con escala, brújula al Norte y miniatura de la posición en Buenos Aires.
January 6, 2026 at 1:01 PM
vhgauto.bsky.social
#TidyTuesday Fabricantes de vehículos, precios y tipo de motor.

Script: vhgauto.github.io/tidytuesday/...

#Rstats #dataviz #datavisualization
Figura de puntos, con eje horizontal en escala logarítmica de precios (USD) y en el eje vertical las marcas de autos en orden creciente de precio. Se indica con la forma de la viñeta si se trata de un motor a combustible fósil, híbrido o eléctrico. Bugatti y Lotus tienen los autos más caros.
December 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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jonthegeek.com
@dslc.io welcomes you to week 52 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Christmas Novels!

📂 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-12-30
📰 https://github.com/ropensci/gutenbergr/issues/95

#RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds
Logo for the #TidyTuesday Project. The words TidyTuesday, A weekly data project from the Data Science Learning Community (dslc.io) overlaying a black paint splash. TidyTuesday is a weekly social data project. All are welcome to participate! Please remember to share the code used to generate your results! TidyTuesday is organized by the Data Science Learning Community. Join our Slack for free online help with R and other data-related topics, or to participate in a data-related book club! How to Participate Data is posted to social media every Monday morning. Follow the instructions in the new post for how to download the data. Explore the data, watching out for interesting relationships. We would like to emphasize that you should not draw conclusions about causation in the data. Create a visualization, a model, a shiny app, or some other piece of data-science-related output, using R or another programming language. Share your output and the code used to generate it on social media with the #TidyTuesday hashtag. A color drawing of the Spirit of Christmas Present from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. A man in a green robe sits on top of a pile of varoius foods, and holds a torch above his head. Scrooge stands beside him, dwarfed by the spirt.
December 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
vhgauto.bsky.social
#TidyTuesday Duración de la quema del Böögg en el festival Sechseläuten.

Scripts: vhgauto.github.io/tidytuesday/...

#Rstats #dataviz #datavisualization
Figura de dispersión con años en el eje horizontal y la duración (minutos) de la quema del Böögg en el festival Sechseläuten. El panel muestra de fondo un Böögg prendido fuego.
December 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
vhgauto.bsky.social
#TidyTuesday Índice de desempeño estadístico por país (2023).

Script: vhgauto.github.io/tidytuesday/...

#Rstats #dataviz #datavisualization
Mapa del mundo, con escala de colores que indican el rango de puntaje del índice de desempeño estadístico por país. Argentina está en el rango de los 70, con 90 como máximo.
December 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
vhgauto.bsky.social
#TidyTuesday Palabras más frecuentes en "The Adventure of the..." de Sherlock Holmes.

Script: vhgauto.github.io/tidytuesday/...

#Rstats #dataviz #datavisualization #sherlock
Figura con 22 paneles, uno por cada historia de herlock Holmes, indicando las 5 palabras más frecuentes. La palabra "Watson" se destaca del resto. Las palabras tienen tamaño creciente respecto de su frecuencia.
December 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
vhgauto.bsky.social
#TidyTuesday Casos de casos de tuberculosis en Argentina cada 100000 habitantes.

Scripts: vhgauto.github.io/tidytuesday/...

#Rstats #Datavisualization #dataviz
Figura de columnas, con años en el eje horizontal y cantidad de casos de tuberculosis cada 100000 habitantes argentinos en el eje vertical. Cada columna está compuesta de puntos por cada unidad de casos de tuberculosis, y son emojis de pulmones. De fonde se muestra una calavera.
December 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM