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Case studies and industry use cases

2023-01-13

Computer Vision with LLMs in R

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

Commercial enterprise offerings

2023-01-13

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

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

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Commercial enterprise offerings

2023-01-13

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

2023-01-13

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

2023-01-13

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

2023-01-13

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

2022-12-20

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

2022-12-19

Winners of the 2022 Table Contest

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

Company, events, and community

2022-12-19

Roche: Shifting to an Open-source Backbone in Clinical Trials

VIRTUAL EVENT In 2023, Roche-Genentech will shift toward an entirely open-source infrastructure within clinical...