Posit
Also known as Posit PBC, RStudio, RStudio, PBC
Open-source data science company behind RStudio, the tidyverse, Shiny and Quarto; a public benefit corporation.
At a glance
People
J. J. Allaire, Hadley Wickham (chief scientist) and 2 others
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- Posit, called RStudio until July 2022, is a data science software company founded in 2009 by J.
- J.
- Allaire.
- It makes the RStudio and Positron editors, the tidyverse, Shiny and Quarto as open source, and sells Posit Workbench and Posit Connect to organisations.
- It became a public benefit corporation in 2020 and is a Certified B Corp, based in Boston.
Why it matters
- A large share of the R community, and a growing part of Python's, works in tools it builds and gives away.
Key facts
- Founded
- 2009, as RStudio, by J. J. Allaire1
- Renamed
- RStudio became Posit in July 2022, to cover Python and other languages1
- Headquarters
- 250 Northern Ave, Boston, Massachusetts2
- Public benefit
- Became a Public Benefit Corporation in 2020; a Certified B Corp2
- Open source
- RStudio IDE (2011), Shiny (2012), tidyverse (2016), Quarto (2022), Positron (2025)2
- Products
- Posit Workbench, Posit Connect, Posit Package Manager, Posit Cloud2
- Independence
- No formal connection to the R Foundation in Vienna1
People
Founded by
- J. J. Allaire
People
- Hadley WickhamPersonchief scientist; leads the tidyverse team
- Wes McKinney
- Jenny Bryan
Links
Sources
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