Join the SLC RUG next Tues, June 23 about how @jasminedaly.bsky.social uses Claude Code in her work as an #rstats consultant! I'm really excited to learn more at this session 💫
www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...
I've just tried Posit Assistant on the free plan and must say, I'm impressed. Using the super-cheap Gemma 4 26B model (10% cost of Sonnet) on free plan it worked instantly. Hats of to the #posit team for integrating this into RStudio and allowing people to test with free plan!
Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship?
Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him.
Gift link
When we started working on Positron, we began by asking "what did we always want to do in RStudio, but couldn't"?
Years of community upvotes on RStudio's issue tracker helped us form that wishlist. Here's how some big ideas made their way to Positron:
opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...
Fable 5 is the new highest scorer on bluffbench! The eval measures models' ability to accurately describe plots that show counterintuitive patterns. Six months ago, the strongest models were still in the single digits.
simonpcouch.github.io/bluffbench/
The user interface in the new Posit Assistant is one of the best and most intuitive I've seen for using AI tools for editing code. This will be excellent for students and researchers already familiar with RStudio. This is a brilliant harness and user experience for using AI for data science 🎉
I am really excited about what you can do with Posit Assistant today as well as where it's headed moving forward.
