I'd like to make positron look as much like RStudio as possible, do people have settings/configs that they feel approaches something like this? #rstats #positron

Make a mess of your {targets} pipeline over time? Spark joy and reorganize it with the VS Code/Positron ext. 🌳tarborist! Tarborist now has the ability to reorder your pipeline based on the graph's hierarchy, so the target order matches the underlying pipeline. github.com/tylermorganw... #RStats

I'm finally getting around to making this switch. Hoping to connect with #rstats folks and get back into #TidyTuesday.

In the last year, @posit.co has released one agent called Positron Assistant and another called Posit Assistant, which is kinda confusing. @sara-altman.bsky.social and I sat down to talk about how these agents compare and where they're headed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9P2...

The latest release of #Positron went out last week, and it is chock full of exciting stuff! 🤩 Check out the new Packages pane, inline output for Quarto, the new Posit Assistant interface, and more: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05...

The newly released Posit Assistant is changing the way we can work with R and Python. It is an AI assistant integrated directly into the RStudio and Positron IDEs. New Statistics Globe Hub module: statisticsglobe.com/hub #rstats #python #ai #datascience #statistics #rstudio #statisticsglobehub

Super pumped about this, I’ve been waiting for something like this ever since I started using positron

I'm checking out the new packages pane in our #Positron IDE. Python or #RStats. The little blue arrows mean package updates are available. Search, sort, install, update, remove, and filter by category. More cool metadata coming in a future release.

heyyy Positron has a packages panel now!! And it works with both #rstats and Python! github.com/posit-dev/po...

Four engineers behind Posit Assistant broke down how to build an AI agent for data science — reasoning, agentic workflows, modeling guardrails, and chart extraction. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2sa... Download RStudio: posit.co/download/rst... #PositAI #RStats

👇 Calling all RStudio users who now [also] use Positron 👇 I’m making a Positron tutorial for my @emlab.ucsb.edu colleagues, who primarily use RStudio - what should I include to ease the transition? I'd love to hear your tips, fave resources/tutorials, or how shifting to a new IDE went for you!

Positron may be out of beta since last July, but I've only just recently transitioned my R workflow from RStudio ➡️ Positron and I LOVE IT. For other RStudio users who may not have dabbled yet, here are some of the reasons I haven't opened my beloved RStudio in months 😮

Welcome to the team, Kia Mack! 🌿 She's a data Scientist, physicist, GIS specialist, and wildlife conservation tech veteran. She's also running a Positron AI workshop at AI in Production 2026. Give her a warm welcome! 👋 #JumpingRivers #DataScience #NewJoiner #AIinProduction

🚀 Posit Workbench 2026.04 is released! Posit Assistant, a unified data science AI agent now in Preview for RStudio + Positron! Other highlights: 📅 Moving to monthly releases 📓 Positron Notebook Editor (Alpha) ⏫ Admins can update Positron For much more read the blogpost: posit.co/blog/workben...

Last chance — Posit AI live demo + Q&A is next week, April 29 at 11am EDT. R & Python workflows, inside Positron + RStudio. Register → events.zoom.us/ev/Ajss5j9Ve... #rstats #python

I am excited beyond description to lift the veil on what we have been working on in 2026: Please meet ggsql! A new extension of the SQL language for creating visualisations using the grammar of graphics. Read all about it in the blog post or visit the website at ggsql.org

I've been working on this over the last few months and in my opinion it is just beyond cool. Grammar of graphics for SQL users!

Posit AI is here — live inside Positron and RStudio. Come see it in action in a hands-on workflow demo. Real R & Python. No fluff. 🗓 April 29 · 11am EDT · Register → events.zoom.us/ev/Ajss5j9Ve... #rstats #python

We rebuilt our core R courses—now using Positron. More modern workflows. Built-in AI. Better debugging. 🎉 To celebrate the launch: Get 50% off paid courses through April 30. See updated courses: buff.ly/rdULEs7 #DataScience #RStats #Positron

Cool news for the tiny sliver of people who use Positron/VS Code and Typora on macOS: the latest version of Typora added a new VS Code extension for opening Markdown flavored files in Typora: support.typora.io/Open-in-Typo... That makes this post here a lot easier! #rstats #databs

Alright, Positron's data viewer has me sold—this is legitimately better than RStudio. The nice continuous/ordinal histograms and missing value percentages are actually quite helpful and have already replaced a lot of ... |> pull() |> hist() type workflows I used to use #RStats

How dare I prioritize giving you useful links without actually adding any hashtags that would make this entire post findable 🫠 honestly, sometimes i forget how BlueSky works, y'all #rstats #databs #python #pydata

@masalmon.eu has written up a great post on the downstream effects of tree-sitter-r! - Air, for formatting - Jarl, for linting - Positron's R support, for completions and more - GitHub Search for R It's been very cool to see all the ways this one project has been used to enhance #rstats!

DID YOU KNOW that experimental support for #devcontainers was added to #Positron all sneaky-like in December? Setting url: positron://settings/dev.containers.enable Dev containers (experimental) docs: positron.posit.co/dev-containe... (includes known issues) 🪲 Bugs? 👉🏼 github.com/posit-dev/po...

Glad I was made aware of this, I already have a working VSCode/Positron extension specific to {targets} so I can perform static analysis, navigate, debug, add static pipeline autocomplete, and generally make sense of my giant targets pipelines much more easily🥳 #RStats

Look at this technological stack that @samclark.net uses in his new paper, look at the screenshot: : python, positron, uv, quarto, duckdb — all the best new tools 🤩 (well, except for python in my case, I guess I stay with R #rstats) The #demography paper: 🔗 arxiv.org/pdf/2603.24299

When it comes to #Python type checkers and LSPs, we had a lot of options for what to bundle in Positron, our data science IDE! 🤯 Read through how we evaluated Pyrefly, ty, Basedpyright, and Zuban, and what we ended up deciding to use by default: positron.posit.co/blog/posts/2...

Our latest @posit.co AI Newsletter swaps the usual roundup for something different. @sara-altman.bsky.social and I traced the (brief) history of agents for data science at Posit, from Shiny Assistant to Databot to Positron Assistant to our latest release, Posit Assistant. posit.co/blog/2026-03...

Positron 2026.03.0 is out — and it’s getting seriously good for real data workflows. ✨ Reliable step-by-step execution in R (finally!) 📄 Built-in PDF viewer (no more context switching) 📓 Notebook editor evolving: interactive data grids, better cell control, Jupyter-like UX This is moving […]

Not sure when the little resource monitor was added to Interpreter sessions in Positron, but I love it! #rstats

A few weeks ago, @ivelasq3.bsky.social & I hosted a #DSLab where we walked through using GitHub's integrations & extensions in #Positron - it's up on YT now! #rstats Starting a project, protecting main, issues, branches, stashing/popping changes, resolving merge conflicts, PRs youtu.be/JTv4IbFzI7M

On March 25th, we’re hosting a live enablement session on the new Positron Notebook Editor—a batteries-included experience that treats notebooks as first-class citizens. 🔗 Register Here: events.zoom.us/ev/Ajss5j9Ve...

Oooh, I'm intrigued by this new table syntax in #QuartoPub 1.9

In the fast-paced world of retail analytics, speed-to-delivery is everything. We’re proud to share this insight from Jeffrey Sumner at Bath & Body Works on how Positron is streamlining his team's output. Explore Positron: positron.posit.co Try Positron for free: positron.posit.co/download.html

We are pleased to announce that Heather Turner @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy has joined the R Core Team. She has been an active contributor notably via the R Dev Days, and has greatly improved cooperation between R Core and the R community in more ways #RStats.

In this edition of the @posit.co AI Newsletter, we share about new LLM features in RStudio, some vibe checks on the new GPT 5.4 / Qwen3.5 / Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite releases, and an overview of the Anthropic / Pentagon saga. Read it here: posit.co/blog/2026-03...

I'm over the moon excited to the release of 0.5.0 of orbital 🛰️ This release adds full support for boosted tree, faster creation of orbital objects, optimization of execution! We can finally reliably predict with a xgboost model from a database! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/03... #rstats #tidymodels

🗞️ Here's the latest edition of the Posit AI newsletter, your biweekly roundup of #AI news from Posit and beyond. This week's edition includes: Anthropic's dispute with the Pentagon AI functionality in RStudio New model releases And more! Read the newsletter here: posit.co/blog/2026-03...

Our latest blog walks through the latest release of the Positron Notebook Editor, focusing on two major friction-killers: ✔️ Zero-Code Data Profiling ✔️ Assistant & AI Quick Actions Read the blog: posit.co/blog/elimina...

The March edition of posit::glimpse() is here! 🚀 Key updates include Posit AI, a new assistant in RStudio, Pointblank for synthetic data for #Python, mirai v2.6.0: 50% faster async #RStats ⚡, Positron's PDF viewer + Jupyter support, and more. Read the full roundup: posit.co/blog/glimpse...

Hey R and Python folks at #NICAR26 looking at coding agents for data analysis: Databot from Posit (formerly RStudio) is another option. It's an assistant for the Positron IDE specifically designed for data work. See a demo from September's Posit conference: youtu.be/Ve7cNChzq5Q?... #RStats #Python

In the age of AI-driven programming, IDEs are still essential for an excellent coding journey. My favorites are Zed (zed.dev) for software development and Positron (positron.posit.co) for data science, especially for interactive exploration. #Coding #DataScience

Meet Posit AI. Built for data scientists who want AI inside their RStudio workflow. Instead of black-box suggestions, Posit AI helps generate code you can inspect, understand, and rerun. Learn more: posit.co/products/ai?...

RStudio now has next edit suggestions! I wrote a bit about how they work and have open-sourced the eval we used to engineer the system's prompt: www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-03...

Today we're releasing AI for RStudio. It's really, really good—I'd encourage you to point it at the messiest data sources you have and see what it can do. www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-03...

Using `connections` as a performant way to “see” DuckDB databases in Positron is brilliant. I’m using DuckDB because I have large row AND column datasets. Easily viewing var names is hugely helpful.

I whipped up another learning related Skill! Smaller than Learning Opportunities, but very complementary: interactive guidance through a quick research-backed psychological intervention that helps improve learning plans, motivation and commitment

 github.com/DrCatHicks/l...

The list of why I should switch to Positron keeps getting longer.

New feature in the Positron Notebook Editor: Inline data-explorer view. Whenever you print a pandas or polars dataframe you get an inline interactive view powered by Positron's data explorer. This allows you to view and sort massive dataframes.

Anyone else ever do this? Open up the most powerful data science integrated development environment ever created to do some simple arithmetic?