While coding agents like Positron Assistant and side::kick() are technically compatible with LLMs small enough to run on your laptop, the results leave much to be desired. New on the @posit.co blog from @sara-altman.bsky.social and I: posit.co/blog/local-m...

For some reason, I have been thinking about how I would explain my tech stack to someone else (no idea why). It used to be horribly complicated. Now it's just R/Positron, Obsidian, Things3. I can do nearly any project with just that.

You can join my free online lecture on GitHub Copilot (Thu 18.12., 4-5 pm CET) I’ll show context-aware code completion, chatting with your scripts and projects & responsible use. I'll use R/Python + Positron; but works similarly in other languages/editors. 👉 Details & link: tinyurl.com/2xubc787

Great and easy to understand post on using LLMs, i.e. in #positron #rstats

Working on Arrow in Positron and PR comments are showing up inline! 😍 OK, I'd been a bit hesitant to move away from RStudio as I was used to it, but this is a game changer! I know this is a VS Code extension thing not a Positron thing, but VSCode was a bit meh for R, so rarely used it! #rstats

Curious what’s free in Positron vs. what comes with Positron Pro? Nick Rohrbaugh shows exactly how Positron stays a full-featured free IDE — and how Pro adds SSO, managed credentials, scalable compute, auditing, and more. Clip below. Full demo → posit.co/resources/vi...

We've all been there: you run your code and get an error message that makes absolutely no sense. I recently discovered a new tool in Positron that can actually explain your errors in plain language AND even fix your code for you automatically! #rstats #Positron

Here's the full writeup, with #rstats examples of both: datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...

New releases for tidymodels! 📦 We've launched filtro and important for supervised feature selection in #RStats. These tools simplify predictor ranking, reduce overfitting, and include advanced dynamic importance calculations. Learn more: tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11...

A new release of odbc, a package that allows for connecting to various databases, is on #rstats CRAN! Just a few bug fixes in this release. github.com/r-dbi/odbc/r...

I get the appeal of local LLMs—free, private, no big tech. That said, they're not yet ready to power coding agents like Positron Assistant or Databot. www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2025-12...

relatable talk. uv and positron have finally made python usable for me youtu.be/pMVYl9fx1EE?...

Posit is headed to PyData Boston (Dec 8–10)! We’ll be sharing Positron, Connect Cloud, and lots of open-source tools with the community. And don’t miss Isabel Zimmerman’s keynote on 12/9: “A toolkit for building and using tools.” Event details → posit.co/events/pydat...

New favorite Positron/VS Code setting: "editor.emptySelectionClipboard": false Accidentally pressing Cmd+C with nothing selected will no longer select the current line

Are you a data human who has always been a little intimidated by #AdventofCode? Come to the #DataScienceLab on Dec 2nd where @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social will give us a super friendly hands-on intro. Very casual, lurk friendly. Register for the event series @ pos.it/dslab #databs #rstats #pydata

I've been an #RStudio user since grad school and somehow missed that they released Positron! I knew the company rebranded to Posit in 2022, but I'm just now catching up on the IDE news. Time to explore. #RStats

I mostly use PyCharm as my IDE, but I've heard a lot about Positron lately, so I thought I'd give it a try. I really like how integrated Streamlit and Quarto are. Being able to click the play button and automatically start the app and open the viewer is great.

Considering a new IDE for your data science work? ✨ Explore Positron, our IDE for #RStats and #Python! We have migration guides to help you migrate from: ➡️ VS Code & ➡️ RStudio We’re also working on a guide for Jupyter users! What else would you like to see? Let us know! posit.co/blog/positro...

Positron is more than your average, basic editor. Learn how Positron unites the interactive power of RStudio with the modern efficiency of VS Code, creating a single, free, polyglot environment for R and Python. Read the white paper: posit.co/whitepaper/a...

Wear your IDE

This week on What's New in R, we're featuring: ✅ A dive into {ggplot2}’s geoms and stats by @mattansb.msbstats.info ✅ New book on spatial data viz. by @jakubnowosad.com & Martijn Tennekes ✅ Demo of AI features in Positron by @ryjohnson09.bsky.social Read the issue: buff.ly/bA4ar3v #rstats

After years of working with Quarto, I've refined a set of editor settings that significantly improve document editing efficiency. My latest blog post shares these battle-tested configurations. mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2025-1... #Quarto #VSCode #Positron #Productivity #DataScience

Next Positron demo is Nov 26! See built-in data exploration, plot history, app previews, AI that understands your R/Python session, and quick deployment to Posit Connect—all in one IDE. Register → events.zoom.us/ev/Ajss5j9Ve... #Positron #DataScience

See how Positron scales at work. Join our November 26 demo to explore Positron Pro, the enterprise-ready IDE inside Posit Workbench. Register here → events.zoom.us/ev/Ajss5j9Ve... #DataScience #Positron #Python #RStats

Our students are exploring some great #rstats packages like #patchwork and #ggplot using #positron @posit.co

This edition of @sara-altman.bsky.social and I's AI Newsletter is a @posit.co heavy one! Support for new model providers in Positron Assistant, an experimental coding agent for RStudio, a conference on #rstats + AI this week, and more. :) posit.co/blog/2025-11...

Don't know where to start with all these #PositConf2025 videos? There's a chatbot you can query to find sessions that might interest you. (Then search for those sessions in the YouTube playlist.) posit-ai-posit-conf-agenda-chat.share.connect.posit.cloud #RStats #Python #PositronIDE #QuartoPub

GitHub Copilot Chat in Positron Assistant 🤖 Positron Assistant now supports GitHub Copilot for both completions and chat! Add GitHub Copilot as a model provider for access to its models, chat participants, and tools. Learn more: positron.posit.co/assistant

the hardest #positron / vscode-style-shortcut for me to remember, so far, has been ctrl +k, c to comment/uncomment blocks of code #databs #rstats

Oh, amzing tool in #Positron with #Quarto for #Rstats scientific publishing. The gitlense extention allows you to compare any pair of previous commits in a single diff view. Am currently rescuing a few ideas lost to an earlier over zelious condensing effort.

I'm doing a workshop on R package development with Positron on Jan 15 2026. Register for the virtual workshop here: sites.google.com/view/dariia-... I'll cover devtools, usethis, testthat, covr, and a few AI tools along the way to help. #Rstats

Great Q from @smachlis.bsky.social in @posit.co hangout: "How can I see token usage in Positron Assistant?" For providers that track tokens, we display in Chat and Positron Assistant icon on the right of the Status Bar. Image from pending 2025.11.0 release #RStats #Pydata #DataBS #Positron

I loved discussing "Positron for RStudio Users: A Gentle Introduction" with @simisani.bsky.social & R-Ladies Gaborone! Check out the recording and materials: 📹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fOQ... 📝 ivelasq.rbind.io/talk/positro... I hope this intro is better than the one between my three cats 😹

Announcing the Data Explorer “Convert to Code” Feature on Positron! With a single click, you can copy the R or Python code that reflects the filters and sorts you've set up in the Data Explorer UI. Transition quickly from visual exploration to scripting today! positron.posit.co/data-explore...

people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath

These are my #Positron extensions I've currently installed. Are there any "must haves" missing in my list, what other extensions would you recommend etc.? (answers including "python" will be ignored... 😎) #rstats #rstudio #vscode

The Positron Lounge at #PositConf2025 was the place to be! 💻 So much great energy and folks going hands-on with the free, next-gen IDE. Thanks for meeting the creators and sharing your feedback! If you missed it, no worries. Get #Positron now and we'll see you in Houston, Sept 14-16, 2026! 📆

One of my favorite recent Positron discoveries is that you can not only (1) pin tabs, but (2) put the pinned tabs on their own dedicated row (after enabling that setting), which is glorious for workspace tab management #rstats

There is a new monthly release of #Positron available, and it delivers fresh new features for the Data Explorer! In this screencast, I walk through how to interactively explore a recent #TidyTuesday dataset on literary prizes 📚📖🏆 using some of the Data Explorer newness. youtu.be/KOgQuWF0US4

oooh new version of Positron just released and it has (1) github copilot chat and (2) automatic {dplyr} code generation based on filtering/sorting/etc that you do in the data viewer #rstats

Watching James Gunn’s SLITHER on Peacock. First time I’ve seen it in years. Still holds up as a great horror comedy.

WHOA I just discovered the kbd shortcode in #QuartoPub, which automatically creates an OS-specific <kbd> element, You can specify different OSes and it'll show them in an HTML title element, or expand them in print formats - documentation here: quarto.org/docs/authori...

Throw in some font awesome icons and baby, you got a stew going #QuartoPub

Looking to use Quarto inside Positron, our new IDE for data science? We’ve released a video and guide for getting started. Positron makes Quarto easy: Quarto is pre-installed, you get dedicated buttons for tasks like "Preview," and full coding support. Learn more: posit.co/blog/create-...

A data scientist and product owner shares her take on why the new Positron IDE is a game-changer for her workflow. Learn how Dr. Claire Welsh of The Strategy Unit uses Positron to streamline everything from project management to documentation. Read her insights: posit.co/blog/positro...

🏈 GB 40 - 40 DAL FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1093rd unique final score in NFL history.

He was 100% right lol

Pasteurization kills H5N1 in milk. Viral bits remain, but they didn’t make mice sick. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pasteurization-milk-no-h5n1-bird-flu

Thank you. Our research team at @idpp.bsky.social and beyond enjoyed working on this project, and used @posit.co #positron for our #rstats and #python coding along with a suite of #GenAI tools. Very interesting insights on #CRPD implementation at global, regional, and national levels.

🚀 The 3rd edition of the Posit AI Newsletter is out now! Curated by @sara-altman.bsky.social and @simonpcouch.com, this biweekly newsletter keeps you up to speed with #AI. This week: the #Claude degradation incident, posit::conf AI talks, and what "agents" actually are. 📬 posit.co/blog/2025-09...