Christophe Dervieux

Good news for Europe: posit::conf's virtual pass now includes auto-subtitles in French, Spanish, Portuguese, German & Italian 🎉 Plus a virtual workshop on 9/14, multiple time slots, and recordings within hours — easy to catch afternoon US sessions next morning. Join us virtually!

Air 0.10.0 is out now! - Enforce `<-` or `=` throughout your #rstats code (only one of these is correct though 😉) - Tighter Positron and RStudio integration - pre-commit / prek support - stdin support - Install with uv, mise, or pixi Read all about it! opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

tufte 0.15.0 on CRAN 🎉 Edward Tufte styles for R Markdown (HTML + PDF). Old 📦 still deserve some ❤️ New: bookdown wrappers (tufte_*2()) with text refs + cross-refs, and margin_fig_pos for margin figure offset. Fixes: natbib in margins, fig.margin + fig.align, more. github.com/rstudio/tuft...

I am excited beyond description to lift the veil on what we have been working on in 2026: Please meet ggsql! A new extension of the SQL language for creating visualisations using the grammar of graphics. Read all about it in the blog post or visit the website at ggsql.org

Thanks, Max, for writing about this !! Really useful for anyone looking to move to Quarto as well.

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...

📢 Announcement: We are sunsetting the bookdown.org public hosting service. If you have #RStats docs on bookdown.org, please migrate them to a new platform by January 31, 2026, to maintain control over your content. (We recommend Posit Connect Cloud!) Learn more: posit.co/blog/bookdown-org-sunset

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

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...

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 !

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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!

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/

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

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!

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 !

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.

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...

@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...

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

Quarto 1.6 is out! 🎉 Download it here: quarto.org/docs/download/ Quarto 1.6 supports unified branding across formats, updates to RevealJS, a new shortcode to reorder content, a landscape page block, and more. Blog post: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...

We’ve been working hard on next quarto version and it is coming out soon. It is already available so if you are ok to try it please do ! Feedback welcome to find the remaining bugs that could still be hidden. Thanks !

The recording from my "Typst or LaTeX? Styling PDF documents with Quarto extensions" satRdays talk is now online! ❓ What is Typst? ⚖️ Pros and cons of LaTeX vs Typst for Quarto PDFs 🎨 How to add styling to PDF outputs Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dbu... #RStats #QuartoPub #Typst #satRdays2024

I made an #RSats starter pack. Includes a touch of Linux, Python, and dataviz but mostly R. go.bsky.app/Ki7PjpS

Are there people creating newsletters from knitr or jupyter content? How do they do it? Please respond if you know of someone doing something like this, or repost if you have an audience that you think would. Thanks!

I’ll be also presenting at #useR2024 on Tuesday to talk about how Quarto can improve your publishing experience. If you don’t know yet what is quarto or you are still hesitant to try it from the confort of your Rmd knowledge, come listen ! 🤓 sched.co/1c8xG

I’ll be at #useR2024 next week, eager to meet with the community ! Please come meet with me - always happy to talk R, Quarto and also rmarkdown 😉 See you there ! 👋

First post here 👋 to announce exciting news for all #rstats #quartopub enthusiasts! 🚀 Quarto R package version 1.4 is here! 📦✨ Main feature: new vignette engine for seamless integration with QUARTO CLI! Also some enhancement for compatibility with QUARTO CLI 1.4 🔥💻 github.com/quarto-dev/q...