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Case studies and industry use cases

Natural language data science with RStudio and Databricks

Access Databricks LLMs directly from RStudio using the gander package.

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Case studies and industry use cases

Computer Vision with LLMs in R

Frank Hull introduces kuzco, a computer vision assistant for R.

Commercial enterprise offerings

Level Up Your Python Tables: Structure, Style, and Clarity with Great Tables

Michael Chow and Richard Iannone walk through more advanced techniques to elevate your Great...

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Commercial enterprise offerings

Which AI model writes the best R code?

The vitals package delivers a dedicated framework for measuring how well Large Language Models...

Case studies and industry use cases

R Package Snapshots for Clinical Trial Submissions

Posit Package Manager helps ensure reproducibility and transparency when recreating clinical trial environments.

Case studies and industry use cases

Easy tool calls with ellmer and chatlas

Use tool calling to grant your LLMs access to external and private data sources...

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Commercial enterprise offerings

Teaching chat apps about R packages

Simon Couch walks through how to teach LLMs about R packages for more thorough...

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Open source packages - Quarto, Shiny, and more

Announcing pins 1.1.0

We are delighted to announce pins 1.1.0 is now available on CRAN.

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Open source packages - Quarto, Shiny, and more

Winners of the 2022 Table Contest

We at Posit are believers in the power of tabular data. They are essential...