Why RStudio?

The technology to amass data exceeds our abilities to make use of it.

People all over the world are turning to R, an open source statistical language, to make sense of data.

Inspired by the innovations of R users in science, education, and industry, RStudio develops free and open tools for R and enterprise-ready professional products for teams to scale and share work.

Our goal is to empower users to be productive with R.

Let us know how we can help you!

Meet the Team

We are a distributed team with headquarters in Boston’s Innovation District, and a second office in Seattle. One or more of us can also be found in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Indiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia…and Portugal!

J.J. AllaireSoftware Engineer & Founder - Boston, MA

JJ Allaire is a software engineer and entrepreneur who has created a wide variety of products including ColdFusion, Open Live Writer, Lose It!, and RStudio. GitHub

Jeff AllenSoftware Engineer - Dallas, TX

Jeff’s background is in Computer Science and bioinformatics; it was there that he first encountered R in 2007. After spending many years as an RStudio user and evangelist, he joined the team in 2013. GitHub

Aron AtkinsSoftware Engineer - Boston, MA

Aron is a software engineer with experience at a number of Boston-area startups. Most recently, he helped build the Brightcove video platform. He has Mathematics and Computer Science degrees from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Aron grew up as part of a farming family and still adores apple cider donuts. GitHub

Phil BowsherCustomer Success - Indianapolis, IN

Phil is a Sr. Account Executive in Customer Success at RStudio. His background is in analytical programs and consulting. He has experience at a number of technology and consulting corporations working in data science teams and delivering innovative data products. GitHub

Jessica BrennanBusiness Manager - Boston, MA

Jessica’s background is in Business Management. She has previous experience in startups. Most recently, she worked for Brightcove under Tareef Kawaf for five out of her seven years there.

Bill CarneyMarketing - Boston, MA

Bill has a wide range of cross–functional experience building and leading organizations through accelerated growth, expansion, product development and market differentiation. He has been in and led sales & marketing teams his entire career from early stage start-ups such as RStudio, VisibleGains, Veracode, ByAllAccounts and Spotfire to larger companies like TIBCO, Stratus Technologies, and Anixter. GitHub

Mine Çetinkaya-RundelData Scientist and Professional Educator - Durham, NC

Mine is Professional Educator at RStudio and Assistant Professor of the Practice at Duke University. Her work focuses on innovation in statistics pedagogy, with an emphasis on computation, reproducible research, open-source education, and student-centered learning. She is the author of three open-source introductory statistics textbooks as part of the OpenIntro project and teaches the popular Statistics with R MOOC on Coursera. GitHub

Winston ChangSoftware Engineer - Minneapolis, MN

Winston is a software engineer at RStudio, and is a developer for the Shiny, ggplot2, and devtools packages. He holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Northwestern University and is the author of R Graphics Cookbook, published by O’Reilly Media. GitHub

Chaita ChaudhariQuality Engineer - Austin, TX

Chaita is a Quality Engineer who has worked across Retail, Publishing & Gaming domains. She holds a degree in Computer Science and Business Administration. Born in India, she lived in London before making Austin her home. Apart from breaking stuff, her hobbies include theater, coaching math pentathlon and is a fan of ‘Walking Dead’.

Joe ChengCTO - Seattle, WA

Joe is a software engineer who has worked at a number of startups including Allaire, Upromise, and Onfolio. He also worked on Windows Live Writer. GitHub

Jim ClemensVP Customer Success - Boston, MA

Jim has built Sales and Services functions for numerous high growth technology companies including SGI, Macromedia, Frictionless Commerce, Oat Systems and Bit9. He holds a Computer Science degree from Dartmouth College.

Steven FazzioData Scientist | Growth Marketer - Austin, TX

Steven is a growth marketer and data analyst. Originally coming from the natural sciences, he has spent years working with information technology at Indeed, The University of Texas at Austin, and Epic Systems. In his spare time, Steven enjoys all things related to food, including foraging, gardening, cooking, and dining out.

Amanda GadrowSoftware Engineer - Newark, OH

Amanda has solved problems at small Boston-based startups for many years. She has experience building high-quality software in various roles, including customer support, test strategy and automation, and product management. GitHub

Garrett GrolemundData Scientist and Master Instructor - Orlando, FL

Garrett excels at teaching, statistics, and teaching statistics. He wrote the popular lubridate package and is the author of Hands On Programming with R and the upcoming book, Data Science with R, from O’Reilly Media. He holds a PhD in Statistics and specializes in Data Visualization. GitHub

Darby HadleyQA Engineer - Austin, TX

Darby is a QA engineer that has worked primarily in the video game industry. He has tested everything from AAA games to web applications with work ranging from automation development to management. GitHub

Jim HesterSoftware Engineer - Cleveland, OH

Jim is a software engineer at RStudio working with Hadley to build better tools for data science. He is the author of a number of R packages including lintr and covr, tools to provide code linting and test coverage for R. GitHub.

Fereshteh KarimeddiniSoftware Engineer - Boston, MA

Fereshteh is a software engineer that has worked at a number of startups. GitHub

Tareef KawafPresident - Boston, MA

Tareef is a software startup executive and a member of teams that built up ATG’s eCommerce offering and Brightcove’s Online Video Platform, helping both companies grow from early startups to publicly traded companies. GitHub

Pete KnastCustomer Success - San Diego, CA

Pete has been in sales since his undergrad days at both Suffolk and Temple. Whether recruiting, selling web ad-space or handling high tech accounts, he has prided himself on being an asset to his customers. The fascinating projects he encountered in the analytics market, both at Spotfire and Jaspersoft, led Pete to RStudio. During his career Pete has enjoyed working at a variety of companies; from his own start up to larger companies like TIBCO. Outside of providing customers with excellent service, Pete enjoys surfing and spending time with his family. GitHub

Sean LoppCustomer Success - Golden, CO

Sean has a degree in mathematics and statistics and worked as an analyst at the National Renewable Energy Lab before making the switch to customer success at RStudio. In his spare time he skis and mountain bikes and is a proud Colorado native.

Javier LuraschiSoftware Engineer - Seattle, WA

Javier is a Software Engineer with experience in technologies ranging from desktop, web, mobile and backend; to augmented reality and deep learning applications. He previously worked for Microsoft Research and SAP and holds a double degree in Mathematics and Software Engineering. GitHub

Jonathan McPhersonSoftware Engineer - Seattle, WA

Jonathan is a software engineer on the RStudio IDE. In the past, he’s written Web applications at a nuclear site in the desert, exploratory information visualization systems at UC Davis, and features for flagship Office products and modern web applications at Microsoft. GitHub

Steve NolenSite Reliability Engineer - Los Angeles, CA

Steve is a site reliability engineer at RStudio. He’s currently living in Los Angeles (after a number of years working at UCLA on a data science-based education project) but originally hails from the Philadelphia area. He holds a master’s degree in information security from Penn State University as well as bachelor’s degrees in both music and computer information systems from Westminster Choir College and Rider University. GitHub

Roger ObergVP Marketing - Austin, TX

Roger has been a general manager and vice president of sales, marketing, and engineering from early stage start-ups such as RStudio, Veracode, XVT and Requisite to Ping Identity, Spotfire, TIBCO, Rational, and IBM. GitHub

Ian PylvainenSupport Engineer - Boston, MA

Ian is a support engineer that has worked in information technology and support for many years, including at Wellesley College and Wesleyan University.GitHub

Jonathan Regenstein
Enterprise Advocate - Atlanta, GA

Jonathan worked in the the world of finance and did graduate work in political economy before joining RStudio. He has very little free time, but if he had more he would enjoy skiing, SCUBA diving, squash and tennis. GitHub

Bárbara Borges Ribeiro
Software Engineer - Aveiro, Portugal

Bárbara is a software engineer working primarily in the Shiny package. She holds a double major in Statistics and Computer Science from Macalester College. After four freezing Minnesota winters, she is back in her warm homeland of Portugal (but to the disappointment of many, she’s not a soccer fan). GitHub

Gary RitchieSoftware Engineer - Seattle, WA

Gary is a software engineer working on the RStudio IDE. During several years at Microsoft, he developed a variety of desktop, mobile and web features. Prior to that he built software for (much) smaller companies in the geophysical and medical fields. He enjoys hiking, coffee, and avoiding sunburns. GitHub

Robby ShaverVP Product Design - Boston, MA

Robby is a designer who’s helped create a variety of software products & services for organizations large and small including Noteflight, Adobe, Virtual Ubiquity, Maven Networks, IBM, Lotus & Learningways.

Joshua SpiewakSoftware Engineer - Boston, MA

Josh is a software craftsman with a passion for start ups and single malts. He has Computer Science degrees from Brown University. When not building software, Josh plays Magic with his sons and sails with his family in Narragansett Bay. GitHub

Nathan StephensDirector of Solutions Engineering - Baltimore, MD

Nathan has a background in analytic solutions and consulting. He has experience building data science teams, architecting analytic infrastructure, and delivering innovative data products. He is a long time user of R.

Kevin UsheySoftware Engineer - Seattle, WA

Kevin is a software engineer at RStudio, and primarily works on the RStudio IDE. He is an active R user, a member of the Rcpp core team, and has contributed to a wide variety of packages in the R ecosystem. He is the maintainer of the ‘packrat‘ package, which allows users to
manage their R package dependencies in an isolated, portable, and reproducible way. GitHub

Hadley WickhamChief Scientist - Houston, TX

Hadley is Chief Scientist at RStudio and Adjunct Professor of Statistics at Rice University. He is interested in building better tools for data science. His work includes R packages for data analysis (ggplot2, plyr, reshape2); packages that make R less frustrating (lubridate for dates, stringr for strings, httr for accessing web APIs); and that make it easier to do good software development in R (roxygen2, testthat, devtools, lineprof, staticdocs). He is also a writer, educator, and frequent contributor to conferences promoting more accessible and more effective data analysis. GitHub

Yihui XieSoftware Engineer - Omaha, NE

Yihui Xie got his PhD from the Department of Statistics, Iowa State University. He is interested in interactive statistical graphics, statistical computing, and web applications. He is an active R user and the author of several R packages, such as animation, formatR, Rd2roxygen, and knitr, among which the animation package won the 2009 John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award (ASA). He is also the author of the book “Dynamic Documents with R and knitr”. In 2006 he founded the “Capital of Statistics”, which has grown into a large online community on statistics in China. He initiated the first Chinese R conference in 2008 and has been organizing R conferences in China since then. During his PhD training at the Iowa State University, he won the Vince Sposito Statistical Computing Award (2011) and the Snedecor Award (2012) in the Department of Statistics. GitHub & Weibo

Jon YoderSoftware Engineer - Blacksburg, VA

Jon loves full-stack software development. He has recently written software for data virtualization (Cisco) and bioinformatics research (where he first worked with R). Jon resides in the mountains of southwestern Virginia, and enjoys his family, animals, nature, and mountain biking. GitHub

Our Inspiration

The creators of R provided a flexible and powerful foundation for statistical computing; then made it free and open so that it could be improved collaboratively and its benefits could be shared by the widest possible audience.

It’s better for everyone if the tools used for research and science are free and open. There are many benefits to free software in science: improved reproducibility, wider sharing of knowledge and techniques, and elimination of cost barriers to create a more level playing field, to name just a few.

R users are doing some of the most innovative and important work in science, education, and industry. It’s a daily inspiration and challenge to keep up with the community and all it is accomplishing.

Our Mission

RStudio has a mission to provide the most widely used open source and enterprise-ready professional software for the R statistical computing environment. These tools further the cause of equipping everyone, regardless of means, to participate in a global economy that increasingly rewards data literacy.

We offer open source and enterprise ready tools for the R computing environment. Our flagship product is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) which makes it easy for anyone to analyze data with R. We also offer many R packages, including Shiny and R Markdown, and a platform for sharing interactive applications and reproducible reports with others.

Our Timeline

Founded in 2008
Free and Open Source products first delivered in 2009
Series A in 2013: General Catalyst, Baseline
Commercial products for enterprises introduced in late 2013 and early 2014
Shinyapps.io service launched in early 2015

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RStudio Legal Terms

RStudio: Regulatory Compliance and Validation Issues – A Guidance Document

Shiny Server Pro: Regulatory Compliance and Validation Issues – A Guidance Document

FOAS

RStudio and Shiny are affiliated projects of the Foundation for Open Access Statistics. FOAS works to ensure the continued success of the Journal of Statistical Software (JSS), one of the few major open access journals that is free for both readers and authors. They also promote the use and development of free software for statistics, such as the R language and environment for computational statistics.

R Consortium

The R Consortium is a collaboration between the R Foundation, RStudio, Microsoft, TIBCO, Google, Oracle, HP and others. It’s chartered to fund and inspire ideas that will enable R to become an even better platform for science, research, and industry.