Stories by ionychal

Too many R packages: CRAN is inundated with submissions

Bluffbench is near saturation: LLMs can interpret counterintuitive plots

2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics Awarded to the R Project

Gemini 3.5 Flash beats Opus 4.8 on bluffbench

Gemma 4: A new, budget-focused model in Posit AI

Posit AI is priced for the long run

March 2026 Top New Cran Packages

A Few Claude Skills for R Users

The Proof – Andrew Wiles' Quest to Prove Fermat's Last Theorem

Which LLM writes the best R code?

Vibes Are Not a Metric: A Guide to LLM Evals in Python

Zap the sidebar and focus: Positron peeling away from VS Code

Forget PDFs: Govt agencies are using Shiny and Quarto for interactive data tools

Year in review 2025: AI in data science [Python/R]

Nlmixr2, an R-based OSS challenger to NONMEM/Monolix/Phoenix, joins R Consortium

AWS inks strategic collaboration agreement with Posit, maker of RStudio/Positron

Open Source Pledge: Posit contributed $0.75M to OSS in the past 12 months

Migrating to Positron, a next-generation data science IDE for Python and R

Anaconda Ends R Support, Doubles Down on Python AI/ML

Setting up local LLMs for R and Python