Breaking Barriers: Adopting R in Biotech with Posit
summary
Company replaces ad-hoc R/SAS handoffs with a Posit stack—Posit Workbench, Posit Package Manager and Posit Connect—backed by the vendor SCE using Docker containers. A snapshot-based package validation keeps a locked subset available to the SCE while allowing nonvalidated packages for exploratory work in Workbench. GitHub-to-Connect deployment uses a service account and GitHub PATs; Quarto is installed on the Linux host; binary package repos and GUI repo selection are disabled to enforce reproducible environments. Integration has kinks but is functioning.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:24Adopting Posit at Denali
- 1:28Initial statistical computing challenges
- 2:32Why Posit for R workflows
- 3:12Posit implementation scope
- 4:16Planning Posit workflow changes
- 6:25First steps with Posit Connect
- 8:32GitHub to Posit Connect deployment
- 9:54Quarto support in Posit Connect
- 10:36Package snapshots in Posit Manager
- 11:41Posit Workbench setup
- 12:43Shiny app deployment best practices
- 13:26Data sharing challenges
- 14:09Lessons from Posit adoption
- 15:33Final advice for adopters
- 16:17Q&A: Updating validated packages
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