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Written by Tracy Teal
2022-10-26
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Opening

This is our last newsletter as RStudio — the next time this newsletter lands in your inbox, we’ll be Posit! As with any transition, I’m excited about what’s ahead and also grateful for everything that has led to getting here. We asked employees what the name RStudio meant to them, and of course there was ‘hexagon’, but there was also ‘community’, ‘encouragement’, ‘welcoming’, ‘collaboration’, ‘creativity’, ‘growth’, ‘purpose’, ‘tools’ and ‘open source’. Those are things that won’t change—the who we are and how we work (and the hexagons) — and I can’t wait to see what we create together next.

Roundup

Learn. Teach. Share.

Selected Releases

{learnr} v0.11.0
This release collects many large and small improvements to the {learnr} package, all with the goal of making it easier to create interactive tutorials for teaching programming concepts and skills.

{torch} 0.9.0
We are happy to announce that torch v0.9.0 is now on CRAN. This version adds support for ARM systems running macOS, and brings significant performance improvements.

tidyverse

Tidymodels

  • {parsnip} 1.0.2 release includes improvements to errors and warnings that proliferate throughout the tidymodels ecosystem. These changes are meant to better anticipate common mistakes and nudge users informatively when defining model specifications.
  • See the tidymodels quarterly roundup for the full list of recently released packages.

Wrapping Up

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Tracy Teal

Open Source Program Director at Posit, PBC
Tracy Teal has been working with open source communities as a developer, instructor and project leader throughout her career. As a PhD student at Caltech and then as an Assistant Professor in bioinformatics at Michigan State University, she saw that the bottleneck to discovery was no longer data production, but the skills and perspective to work with data. She went on to co-found Data Carpentry to scale data training along with data production and then became Executive Director of The Carpentries, continuing to develop open curriculum and an inclusive instructor community. She is currently the Open Source Program Director at Posit where she is passionate about supporting open source developers and expanding access to tools that help people use data to answer the questions that are important to them.

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