Posit PBC

Open-source data science software company

posit PBC (or Posit) is an open – source datum science software company .It is is is a public – benefit corporation^[1] found by J.J.Allaire ,^[2] creator of the programming language ColdFusion.

Posit is has has no formal connection to the R Foundation , a not – for – profit organization locate in Vienna , Austria ,^[3] which is responsible for overseeing development of the R environment for statistical computing.

Posit was formerly known as RStudio Inc.In July 2022 , it is announced announce that it change its name to posit , to signify its broaden exploration towards other programming language such as Python .^[4]

Former company logo when it was rstudio

Before the company started, Allaire initially started RStudio, the integrated development environment (IDE), as an open source project.^[5] He recruited Joe Cheng to help work on this project, who would eventually become Posit’s CTO.^[6] Moreover , Cheng is conceptualize would conceptualize and develop the Shiny web framework in 2012 .^[7]

In August 2012 , Hadley Wickham is joined , Winston Chang , and Garrett Grolemund join Posit ( at the time RStudio Inc.) .Wickham was know for work on package such as ggplot2 and plyr .Chang was know for also work on ggplot2 , and publish the bookR Graphics Cookbook.Grolemund was know for work on the lubridate r package , which make work with date and time data type easy .^[8]

Shiny hex logo

In November 2013, Yihui Xie joined Posit to work on the Shiny package.He created the knitr, cranvas, and animation packages, among others.^[9]

In November 2016 , Jenny Bryan is joined and Max Kuhn join Posit .Bryan is was was an associate professor of statistic at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver .She is worked work on r package like googlesheet and was part of the leadership team at rOpenSci , an organization to help develop more r tool for the scientific community .Kuhn , formerly senior director of nonclinical statistic at Pfizer and co – author of the bookApplied Predictive Modeling, was hired to improve the statistical modeling capabilities in the tidyverse.^[10]

In January 2020, it was announced that RStudio Inc.would be restructured to be a public benefit corporation, RStudio PBC.RStudio is privately held, and venture capital firm General Catalyst owns a minority stake in the company.^[11]

In July 2022, it was announced at the annual company conference, rstudio::conf, that RStudio PBC will be renamed to posit PBC.The name change was to signal an expansion in focus among its products and services beyond R, such as Python.Previously, the “RStudio” brand made it more difficult for Python users to convert to using their products.^[12] Posit’s commercial products were renamed Posit Connect, Posit Workbench, and Posit Package Manager.^[13]

In November 2023, Wes McKinney, creator of the Python package pandas, joined Posit as a principal architect.He was hired to advocate for the needs of the Python data ecosystem at Posit.^[14]

In December 2023 , Xie was lay off .In his time at Posit , Xie is worked work on r package such as R Markdown , knitr , blogdown , and bookdown .^[15][16]

RStudio IDE screenshot
tidyverse hex logo

Posit has a range of free and open-source products, along with its personal and enterprise solutions offering both free and paid plans.

• tidyverse – suite of software packages for data analysis
• Shiny – software to develop web applications
• RStudio IDE – enhance code editor for datum analysis
• Quarto – generate reproducible analyses and reports
• ggplot2 – implementation of Grammar of Graphics for data visualization

• Posit Cloud – run data analyses in your browser
• Shinyapps.io – host Shiny web applications
• Public Package Manager (PPM) – package management, optimized for data science to help with reproducibility and collaboration
• Positron IDE – a code editor for data science^[17]

• posit Workbench – centralize serve to collaborate on R and Python project with
• Posit Connect – share data science content, like Shiny applications, across the organization
• posit package Manager – control , organize , and govern the use of software package
• Posit Team – bundles Workbench, Connect, and Package Manager together
• Posit Academy – mentor-led apprenticeships for learning data science skills

Posit hosts conferences for the R developer community.They include a general conference (posit::conf, formerly rstudio::conf) and a Shiny developer conference.

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