Posit Workbench and RStudio Pro

Posit Workbench is the place for teams to collaboratively build open source data science projects at scale. It supports both R and Python, giving data scientists access to all the development environments they love, including RStudio, Jupyter, and VS Code.

If you are working on RStudio Pro in Posit Workbench, you have more seamless options for connecting to Databricks.

What’s new?

Watch James Blair’s posit::conf(2023) talk, Matching Tools to Titans: Tailoring Posit Workbench for Every Cloud, to learn what’s new with Posit Workbench and Databricks:

See the resources on GitHub »

Managed Databricks credentials »

The 2023.12.0 version of Posit Workbench offers managed Databricks credentials - no need to supply Personal Access Tokens (PATs).

These Workbench-managed credentials eliminate the need for end users to manage complex authentication workflows or manual refresh when accessing specific Cloud services from within Workbench.

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  • Users arrive in a session to find that tools like the CLI and most official SDKs and drivers “magically” work without needing a separate step to set up credentials.
  • Administrators no longer need to accept blanket access to an overloaded instance profile (or an equivalent) by all Workbench users so that they can access Cloud-based resources.
  • Users do not need to manage sensitive, long-lived credentials/PATs themselves to have individually scoped permissions.
  • Administrators can grant or revoke granular access for individuals at the Identity Access or Single Sign-On provider level.

See how easy it is to authenticate your Databricks account in Posit Workbench:

Databricks Pane »

We have introduced a Databricks Pane in RStudio Pro, which allows for users to manage and connect to Databricks clusters directly from the IDE. This allows R users to stay in RStudio Pro without having to navigate back and forth to the Databricks web interface.

Watch a demonstration of the Databricks Pane here:

Databricks Pro Driver »

Posit Workbench includes access to our Pro Drivers for the most popular databases. As of the 2023.12 release, we now also include a Databricks driver.

See how to connect with the Databricks Pro Driver:

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