Positron for R and RStudio Users

This talk was one of six talks presented in a session at posit::conf(2024) (https://posit.co/conference/).

Overall description of the session:

Positron is a next generation data science IDE that is newly available to the community for early beta testing. This new IDE is an extensible tool built to facilitate exploratory data analysis, reproducible authoring, and publishing data artifacts. Positron currently supports these data workflows in either or both Python and/or R, and is designed with a forward-looking architecture that can support other data science languages in the future. In this session, learn from the team building Positron about how and why it is designed the way it is, what will feel familiar or new coming from other IDEs, and whether it might be a good fit for your own work.

Transcript

1. Positron for R and RStudio Users Jenny Bryan
2. Lionel Henry & Davis Vaughan
3. Lionel Henry & Davis Vaughan
6. Workspace is a core concept in Positron A workspace is just a folder* Similar to a Project in RStudio Pro tip: work in a folder most (all?) of the time * Or, at least, it can be and often is that simple
9. R 4.4.1 R 4.3.3 R 4.2.3
11. rig Manage multiple R installations Especially important for macOS users https://github.com/r-lib/rig
12. Positron defaults to the "blank slate" lifestyle R --no-save --no-restore-data
14. The command palette is a core concept in Positron Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + P
15. Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + P
16. Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + P
18. Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + P
20. Install extensions from Open VSX
21. Navigate and run tests via the test explorer
22. JJ Allaire Jenny Bryan Paul di Cristina Daniel Falbel Pete Farland Romain François Jacqueline Gutman Lionel Henry Brian Lambert Wasim Lorgat Wes McKinney Jonathan McPherson Christopher Mead Tom Mock Tim Mok Gary Ritchie Julia Silge Nick Strayer Kevin Ushey Jon Vanausdeln Davis Vaughan Sharon Wang Isabel Zimmerman
23. Learn more at: https://github.com/posit-dev/positron