The April 2024 release of Posit Package Manager brings support for air-gapped PyPI repositories, more flexible curated CRAN repositories, performance improvements and more!
We are excited to announce that the 2024 Plotnine Contest! Plotnine is a visualization library that brings the Layered Grammar of Graphics to #Python. This is the first plotnine event of its kind' we're excited to see what the community shares!
Quick Summary
📈 Deadline for submissions is Friday, July 12, 2024 at midnight (anywhere on earth).
📊 To enter, share your plot with a documented reprex.
📍 Submit at forum.posit.co/w/plotnine-viz-contest-2024
The world of big data, databases, and R is rapidly evolving with an explosion of tools and packages. We're delighted to announce two workshops at posit::conf(2024) tailored for working with large datasets:
• Big Data in R with Arrow, led by Nic Crane and Steph Hazlitt
• Databases with R led by @kirill
Check out Dr. Albert Rapp's latest YouTube video on mastering the great_tables Python package! From raw data to polished displays, learn about custom fonts, nanoplots, conditional formatting, and the steps to great a lovely looking data display table with great_tables. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESyWcOFuMQc&ab_channel=AlbertRapp
The sparklyr package and friends have been getting some important updates in the past few months!
sparklyr is a package that allows you to interact with Spark using familiar R interfaces, such as dplyr, broom, and DBI. You can also gain access to Spark's distributed Machine Learning libraries, Structure Streaming, and ML Pipelines from R.
Quarto R package version 1.4 is here 📦✨ The main feature is a new vignette engine that allows you to use quarto as a vignette builder and use .qmd files as vignettes!
The package also includes more enhancements for compatibility with the Quarto CLI 1.4 🔥💻