Open Source

Open source is core to our DNA

Posit was founded with the mission to create open source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication. We don’t just say this: it’s fundamentally baked into our corporate charter as a Public Benefit Corporation. Our imperative is not growth at all costs, but rather to build a company that will still be here fulfilling its mission in 100 years.
 

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Scaling open source, a model that works

We have created a sustainable model for funding our mission. The packages, protocols, and file formats we develop will always be open source and available to all. As these open source tools become widely adopted, this creates an opportunity to sell complementary products that help in their adoption at scale, the proceeds of which fund further open source development.

We're dedicated to open source

The best way to achieve meaningful progress is to put the power of open source data science tools in the hands of everyone who needs them. Starting with you.

Open source software is resilient.

It’s developed collaboratively by the global community. With open source, you’re not chained to the fortunes of a single company, and you own not just your work, but all the code needed to run it.

 

Open source software is participatory.

You’re not limited by the vision of one company and the methods they support; you’re free to pick and choose from a vast palette of options or even develop your own.

 

Open source software is free.

It’s accessible to everyone, regardless of economic means. This is particularly important for science where the ability to reproduce and critique the work of others is essential for progress.

 

Always Open

We write open source software, and we always will

40% of Posit engineers work full-time on open source software, and many others contribute part-time. We create tools used by millions. Here are just a few.
 

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RStudio IDE

Used by millions of people weekly, the RStudio IDE is a set of tools built to help you be more productive with R and Python.
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Shiny

Deploying your Shiny applications could not be easier. You don’t need to own a server or know how to configure a firewall to deploy and manage your applications in the cloud.
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tidyverse

The tidyverse is an opinionated collection of R packages designed for data science. All packages share an underlying design philosophy, grammar, and data structures.
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tidymodels

The tidymodels framework is a collection of packages for modeling and machine learning using tidyverse principles.
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Shiny Server

Open Source Shiny Server provides a platform on which you can host multiple Shiny applications on a single server.
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Featured customers

ICF

Brooke Rivera, MPH, MBA, Senior Program Director at ICF, is focused on health data insights work. She serves as the Program Manager for CDC’s NSSP BioSense Platform Support Team. She shared how the Posit suite of tools, e.g., Posit Workbench, Posit Connect, and Posit Package Manager, as well as Premium Plus Support, enable an open and transparent collaboration framework for partnering on critical public health surveillance and response efforts nationwide.
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Regeneron

Regeneron's data science and engineering teams supported hundreds of scientists across the clinical trial lifecycle with Posit hosted on AWS, but lacked any centralized way to monitor license utilization, infrastructure costs, or application adoption. To close that gap, they built WatchtowR, a custom Shiny application on Posit Connect that pulls live metrics from Posit APIs and AWS into a single interactive command center, cutting a 22-hour manual license audit process down to seconds and giving engineering leaders the evidence they need to make confident infrastructure decisions.
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Recursion

With a real-time clinical monitoring portal built in Quarto and deployed on Posit Connect, Recursion cut dose escalation meeting turnaround from 7–10 business days to 24–48 hours, with three analysts now supporting five or more active trials simultaneously. With that governed foundation in place, the team is moving toward AI-assisted clinical workflows designed to meet the FDA's emerging push for real-time clinical trials.
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