We released rig 0.11.0, the #Rstats installation manager, this week (and 0.10.0 a bit before). New: a website at rig.r-lib.org, user mode R installations, R package management and R projects. First of three blog posts, on R installations:
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Agent plugins are already installed. Nobody has the list.

AI coding assistants pull in plugins IT and security never reviewed. Package Manager now serves a curated agent-plugins repository, available in the September 2026 release.

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Check out our conf recap & OS updates:

• commons: Build AI data assistants
• Quarto Hub: Edit documents in real time
• skiLift & skiPatrol: Easily connect to Snowflake databases with #RStats
• ggsql: Create charts using #SQL

Read more: https://opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-10-07_glimpse-10-2026/

Congratulations to alumnus Christian Martinez (@thedatadj.bsky.social), who was recognized with a 2026 Posit Impact Award for creating nycOpenData, an R package that helps students work with NYC Open Data and share their research publicly posit.co/blog/2026-po... @posit.co

Announcing commons (v0.1.0): A framework for building trustworthy data analysis agents in #RStats and #Python!

Agents search your approved code first, and responses are automatically labeled by trust level: deterministic, not agent-decided.

Learn more: posit-dev.github.io/commons/

New in querychat: multiple tables, chat history, data-dict, and easy extraction of findings into Quarto, Shiny, Jupyter, etc.

querychat is now much more capable beyond just querying "pre-defined" Shiny outputs.

Available for both #rstats and #python.

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Python Polars: The Definitive Cheatsheet condenses a nearly 500-page book into 2 free pages of @pola.rs fundamentals and expressions.

It’s built as a quick desk reference for anyone working with DataFrames in #Python.

Check it out here: opensource.posit.co/resources/ch...

I'm super excited to join the folks from @motherduck.com at Data Outpost in November! I'll be speaking about why the investments that make SQL comfortable for humans turn out to be the same ones that make it tractable for an agent 🤖

Check out the details at www.dataoutpost.ai

📦 Introducing shinyreact for R & Python

Write your UI natively in React. Shrink your Shiny server to data-only logic. Agent Skills write the React for you.

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This is the start! Tell us what you build and what breaks.

#RStats #Python #Shiny #React

One day to SnowDay Sacramento. We will be at the Posit table all day talking reproducible environments, package provenance, and publishing without a platform team in the way. Bring the workflow you are stuck on.

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Teaching, presenting, or organizing a meetup? Posit offers free tools and more!

Our Community Support Program provides funding, swag, Posit AI credits, and upgraded product access for your event.

Applications close Oct 6! See past recipients and submit your app: opensource.posit.co/about/commun...

The data can't leave Snowflake. The analysis keeps happening somewhere else anyway.

That's most of what we'll be talking about at Snowflake SnowDay Sacramento on Oct 1. The agenda is customer-led and it's free.

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Orbital 0.6.0 is out! Now compile PyTorch & scikit-learn MLPs straight to SQL.

Run database-native inference across Postgres, DuckDB, and Snowflake via Ibis. No #Python runtime or model server required!

Learn more: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-08...

posit::conf(2026) is a wrap.

100+ talks available on demand now. Recordings free on YouTube in December.

Save the date: posit::conf(2027)... September 13 - 15, Seattle, WA.

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As announced at posit::conf(2026) #ggsql is now, with the release of version 0.5.0, in Beta. I'm so excited for the future of this project.

Read all about what the latest version brings you in the release post

ellmer 0.5.0 is now on CRAN! #rstats 🎉 New in this release: citations from web search, new ways to upload files, token counting before you send, streaming structured output, and AWS Bedrock Mantle support. Read all about it on the Posit Open Source blog: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-09...

I think I have cracked one of the final things that kept people in keynote over quarto revealjs slides.

Introducing ✨️ quarto-revealjs-magic-move ✨️

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#quarto #slidecrafting

Shiny for Python 1.8 is out! 🎉 Test your app's server logic without a browser 🪄

test_server() runs your app in memory: set inputs, let the reactive graph settle, assert on outputs. Plain, synchronous pytest.

Also: ui.page_html() and session.allow_reconnect().

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"LLMs are an exponent on who you are."

Greater than one and it compounds. A little under one and it works against you at exactly the same speed. Posit CEO Tareef Kawaf on The Test Set, new episode out now.

Listen now on Spotify (https://bit.ly/3TJvP51) and Apple Podcasts (https://apple.co/4yVWsCV)

I'm extremely honored to be giving one of the keynotes at this years latinR conference in Medellín, Colombia! Talking about building software that matter

I'll be also be doing a workshop on Making great slides with quarto and revealjs!

latinr.org
#rstats #quarto #slidecrafting