Posit PBC

Posit PBC
	Posit logo
Formerly	RStudio Inc, RStudio PBC
Company type	Private
Industry	Software publishing and SaaS platforms
Founded	2009
Founder	J. J. Allaire;
Headquarters	Boston, Massachusetts, US
Key people	Hadley Wickham; Wes McKinney; Jenny Bryan; Julia Silge;
Products	RStudio IDE; tidyverse; Posit Workbench; Posit Connect;
Website	posit.co

Posit PBC (or Posit) is an open-source data science software company. It is a public-benefit corporation^[1] founded by J. J. Allaire,^[2] creator of the programming language ColdFusion.

Posit has no formal connection to the R Foundation, a not-for-profit organization located in Vienna, Austria,^[3] which is responsible for overseeing development of the R environment for statistical computing.

Posit was formerly known as RStudio Inc. In July 2022, it announced that it changed its name to Posit, to signify its broadening exploration towards other programming languages such as Python.^[4]

^ "Posit Benefit Corporation Annual Report". Archived from the original on 2023-01-19. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
^ "About". Posit.co. Archived from the original on 2022-11-02. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
^ ""Statutes of "The R Foundation for Statistical Computing""" (PDF). The R Foundation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-04-03. Retrieved 2019-08-12.
^ "RStudio is becoming Posit". Posit.co. Archived from the original on 2022-11-02. Retrieved 2022-07-28.

[1] "Posit Benefit Corporation Annual Report". Archived from the original on 2023-01-19. Retrieved 2023-01-19.

[2] "About". Posit.co. Archived from the original on 2022-11-02. Retrieved 2015-12-15.

[3] ""Statutes of "The R Foundation for Statistical Computing""" (PDF). The R Foundation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-04-03. Retrieved 2019-08-12.

[4] "RStudio is becoming Posit". Posit.co. Archived from the original on 2022-11-02. Retrieved 2022-07-28.

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