A digital CAPTCHA verification window titled "Select all squares with PIPES" against a plain white background. The window contains a 3×3 grid of numbered squares, mixing literal hardware, smoking pipes, and programming syntax.
These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats
The #Positron team has a new blog! ✨
Check out the first post, about a talk I recently gave for R-Ladies Abuja, and subscribe via email or RSS feed to stay up to date:
positron.posit.co/blog/posts/2...
A screenshot of an RStudio window. On the left-hand side is a new pain called Posit Assistant. The Posit Assistant had recently run code making a lat-lon plot of Washington state, colored by whether the point had been marked as forested or not.
Today we're releasing AI for RStudio. It's really, really good—I'd encourage you to point it at the messiest data sources you have and see what it can do.
www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-03...
btw for trans women to offer this kind of practical warning and sympathy is a serious mitzvah and we cis women really owe it to them (and to ourselves!) to step up our solidarity in kind
#rainbowR conf is todayyyyy! And tomorrow. If you're registered, join @damiepak.bsky.social and I for a short trivia game in about an hour-ish! And then, a quick social 🥳 #rstats #rainbowrconf
"Working with agents is a lot more productive, but a lot less fun." Charlie Marsh on the weird world of building software right now. Full conversation on The Test Set.
New feature in the Positron Notebook Editor: Inline data-explorer view. Whenever you print a pandas or polars dataframe you get an inline interactive view powered by Positron's data explorer. This allows you to view and sort massive dataframes.
Join us now!
Next Tuesday (Feb 17), join the SLC RUG to hear from David B. Dahl about using Rust in #rstats packages! 🦀
www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...
Commenting on PRs is broken. Time to just merge PRs.
My wife hates apps in favor of hand-writing grocery lists. I have not the attention span to remember what I have already procured from the list or how to best navigate our grocery store to get the items. I built an app to solve this…
dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited!
- `filter_out()` for dropping rows
- `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools
These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats!
tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...
Exciting update for #Jupyter and Notebook centric users in #Positron !
posit.co/blog/announc...
#PositronIDE #PyData #DataBS
The latest monthly release of Positron has a BRAND NEW editor for `.ipynb` available for early alpha testing! 📒
I am excited about what Positron is going to offer Jupyter notebook users in terms of truly "batteries included" IDE integration:
posit.co/blog/announc...
I had such a good time speaking at @atds.space this year! All the talks were great & the videos are now online, including mine on demystifying AI code assistance, i.e. what is actually going on when you use a tool like Claude Code or GitHub Copilot or Positron Assistant?!
youtu.be/u0JBMGlzcGw?...
Frivolous post: "Parallel strands between learning crochet and learning programming" 🧶
masalmon.eu/2026/01/26/a...
"LLMs [only] do a great job at interpreting plots that _don't_ contradict their expectations—it's sort of antithetical to the spirit of science." - @mike-thomas.bsky.social. Thanks for the coverage, yall!
More on @sara-altman.bsky.social and I's bluffbench eval: posit.co/blog/llm-plo...
I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal
it only took a year but I'm back with more information about my Positron setup!
This time I'm going over my Extensions and Settings
emilhvitfeldt.com/post/positro...
A bar chart showing the electricity use of several daily activities with the subtitle "The 'typical query' is not a useful way to think about coding agents' energy use." The bar for a 'typical ChatGPT query' is not even visible. My median Claude Code session is somewhere between the average US household per minute and toasting bread for three minutes. My median day with Claude Code is something like running a dishwasher.
Whenever I read discourse on AI energy/water use that focuses on the "median query," I can't help but feel misled. Coding agents like Claude Code send hundreds of longer-than-median queries every session, and I run dozens of sessions a day.
On my blog: www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01...
If you had set up GitHub Copilot before this release, you'll need to log OUT and then back IN to re-authenticate. 🔄
You can check out a few more details on my blog:
juliasilge.com/blog/copilot...
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
I sent 200 pull requests using Claude Code and wrote about the experience. It's pretty wild!
For dplyr releases, we send a PR any time we break an #rstats package. This release advances a lot of deprecated functions, triggering issues in many old packages!
blog.davisvaughan.com/posts/2026-0...
❗️Our next workshop will be on Jan 15 , 6 pm CET titled R package development in Positron by
@stephenturner.us
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats
I was at Texas A&M in the late 90s and EVERY TIME I see a news item about it now, I know I’m about to be embarrassed 🙈
Good morning. I'd like to invite anyone who is interested to make a small gesture of kindness today. It's up to you to decide what that can be. The key is for you to act on the idea. With so much out of our control, we can choose how to be with each other today and every day.
what you clearly see, CLEARLY, is a driver who is spooked by the agents grabbing her door, takes steps to drive away, and is immediately shot as moves her vehicle *away* from the agents.
Come join us to hear some #rstats lightning talks!
Join the SLC RUG tomorrow for a set of #rstats lightning talks! ⚡
www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...
I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time.
It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.
