Posit Connect User Guide

Version 2025.09.0

Introduction

This guide provides an orientation to the Publisher, Viewer, and Administrator capabilities of Posit Connect. You can find documentation relevant to publishing, managing, scheduling, distributing, and accessing content hosted on Connect.

Posit Connect is a publishing platform that makes the delivery of data science content fast, approachable, and secure. Connect supports many of the most popular Python and R frameworks such as: Shiny, Dash, Gradio, Streamlit, Bokeh, Quarto, R Markdown, Jupyter Notebook, FastAPI, Flask, Plumber, and more in one convenient place.

Data Science teams use Posit Connect to:

  • Securely share insights with decision makers.
  • Automate time-consuming tasks with code.
  • Distribute custom-built tools and solutions across teams.
  • Scale the execution of data-driven applications and APIs.

To learn more about using Posit Connect with your organization or to schedule a demo, please visit https://posit.co/products/enterprise/connect/.

Intended audience

This guide is intended for Connect users with Publisher, Viewer, and Administrator roles, with most content geared toward Publishers.

Pages intended only for Administrators include this note at the top:

Documentation for Posit Connect Administrators

The information on this page is for Connect users with the Administrator role.

Administrator content in this guide includes how to manage a Connect system using the Connect UI. For information on administering Connect on a Linux server, please refer to the Connect Admin Guide.