Posit Connect

Make Your Research Reproducible

Posit and Posit Connect make data analysis easier and provides powerful tools for sharing a spectrum of data products, static or dynamic, developed in R and Python: Dashboards, applications, APIs, reports, and so much more.

Posit offers an open-source, development environment for users to perform data analysis on their local workstation. The Posit environment links to Posit Connect to enable users to share their research findings to others.

Posit Connect is a standalone publishing platform for the work your teams create in R or Python. Share Shiny applications, R Markdown reports, dashboards, plots, models, Jupyter Notebooks, and more.  Posit Connect can even be automated to update your content whenever you submit a commit to Git.

Who has access to Posit Connect?

• Access to Posit Connect is restricted to faculty, staff and students of the University of Arizona.
• Applicants must have a faculty member or research staff member as a sponsor. (Faculty and research staff may sponsor themselves.)
• There are a limited number of Posit Connect user seats available to campus.  Seat assignments will be reviewed each semester and sponsoring faculty may be asked about renewals.  It is recommended that research groups designate one, at most two, users to be responsible for publishing materials on behalf of the lab group.

Are there any limitations on use?

• Publishing via Posit Connect is for research purposes.  It is not to be utilized for course assignments. Faculty and students wanting to publish in relation to course activities should first use the public Shiny App services (see https://www.shinyapps.io/).
• The expectation is that all published apps should be set to be publicly viewable. Requests should be made if viewing of the published materials needs to be limited or restricted.
• Posit Connect is provided for distribution of lightweight apps.  Users needing greater compute power or large amounts of local storage should consider using the UA High Performance Computing System or CyVerse.

REQUEST ACCESS TO posit CONNECT

Posit Connect is offered to the UArizona Campus through funding from UA Strategic Initiative: UAHS 5.3 - Health Analytics Powerhouse. 

Resources and Support

Options for on-campus, in-person support

• Jeff Oliver with the University of Arizona Libraries offers R Programming Help and Workshops.
• The Data Science Team with Communications & Cyber Technologies (CCT) trains researchers in open, reproducible, and effective data analysis.
• Reach out to one of the campus Data Science Ambassadors.
• Connect and ask questions to other R-users on the UA Data Science Slack Workspace (see the #r and #r-help channels) 

Useful guides and online tutorials 

• A tutorial on Building Interactive Web Apps with Shiny,(link is external) by Jeff Oliver with the University of Arizona Libraries
• A series of articles from Shiny by Posit stepping you through publishing your first app using Shiny
• A guide on How to Embed a Shiny App in a Website
• A post on how to Dockerize Shiny Applications from R-bloggers.com
• Posit offers a variety of resources to help you on your data science journey:
  • Posit Education to help guide you at all stages of learning data science
  • Posit Cheatsheets to help jog your memory
  • Posit Videos and Webinars
  • The official Posit Connect User Guide 
• The Carpentries Curricula includes a variety of workshops and curricula for Data Carpentry and Software Carpentry using R, Python and Posit

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