What’s new

AI tools

• See section What’s new - AI tools for notes on AI tools.

Positron

• Positron runs R as an extension, meaning that a crash in R does not result in a restart of the entire IDE (like in Rstudio), but rather that the console restarts
• Can debug C and C++ code
• Extensions readily available from Open VSX
  • Continue for AI code assistant

Quarto

• typst for PDF creation with exact look of HTML
  • See brief intro to typst components in these notes for talk Report Design in R: Small Tweaks that Make a Big Difference
  • Appsilon used typst for automatic report generation in their TARS tool, which was talked about in the talk Shiny in Action: Transforming Film Production with TARS
• Quarto live for interactive documents and code exercises to create educational content

Corporate specific

Databricks

• See notes for talk Elevating Enterprise Data Through Open Source LLMs at AI chat-bot solution combining Databricks, Posit connect and Shiny conforming with legal and security requirements
• See package brickster

Posit Workbench and Cloud - Data access and user authentication

• Ability to sign into organisation’s cloud data platform like snowflake or databricks in Posit Workbench AND Posit Connect
  • Users no longer have to think about managing access tokens to pass them to connections when working in workbench
  • Authentication for data access in deployed Shiny apps in Posit Connect is automatic with a simple login to the cloud data platform

Single node DuckDB

Read notes on Save costs without compromising on speed with single node(/machine) using DuckDB.

Pharma GxP packages

The R validation Hub is putting a lot of work into riskassessment R package - give users interface through shiny app that automatically runs riskassessment on packages they want to add to the GxP list.

Quarto templates

See notes from the talk Designing and Deploying Internal Quarto Templates