Positron or RStudio? First time Positron user creates scatter plot with R's ggplot2 package (CC333)

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0:00 Introduction
2:14 Installing Positron
7:30 Exploring Positron
16:03 Replicating scatter plot
36:27 Thinking more about Positron

[haraldurkarlsson]

Pat, Nice demo. Thanks for slugging through this. I think I will wait until the fumigate out the bugs. However, I have heard good things about Positron - for instance that broken code as in RStudio will not simply stop everything - that Positron works through it and keeps running. Since I am Quarto fan I would like to see Positron works with Quarto.

[LarryMartin-ht]

I do like seeing you struggle some with new stuff like we all do.
But makes it easier to navigate once seeing how you do it.

[rexevan]

Well, it's still on Development, I'll give it a try once Positron reach version 1.0

[hesamseraj]

Well, I have been using positron for the past few weeks. I am gradually moving all my projects to it, yes including those in R studio.

I really like Positron, it's modern and has lots of cool stuff. But it's still in development, so when I want to get things done, I use RStudio as always.

[osaabd]

Thnx Pat! What is the idea behind developing this IDE when VS code already exists? It is unclear to me why anyone would move from VS code to using a new IDE!

[cleandata_sk]

In a podcast, Julia Silge mentioned that RStudio will continue to be the primary IDE for R users over the next few years. I haven't tried Positron yet because it seems a bit disorganized compared to RStudio.

[darinddv]

The reason it looks like VS code (and the reason it's called Positron) is because the code behind it is a fork of the codebase for VS Code. Also, VS Code is written using a Javascript framework called Electron--hence 'Positron'.

[yaqinguo]

This is really cool to try different tool. Sadly, my laptop version did not support to install Positron. Thus it looks cool for me but i have no experience. That view function seems fancy which you could get overview of summary. But the good thing is that i can do exactly the same thing in R studio 😃. I guess this might be very useful if someone needs to use both R and python for their data. But if purely R can solve your problems, R-Studio is good enough i believe. I am also wondering what is the difference with jupyter where you can do both R and Python.

[LuizGNA]

I don't think you ever published a video on using R in VS code, right? That would be super cool, especially in the context of running VS Code and R in a cluster computer setting.

[lucasamoroso]

I feel like it's not there yet for me... I hope they keep supporting RStudio for a while 🙈

[evaldosilva]

If they incorporate all the great features of RStudio into Positron and still run Python smoothly, it will be a great help for all data science enthusiasts.

[younessb.]

Hi 👋, will there be positron cloud like posit cloud?

[djangoworldwide]

21:05 the development workflow is just not good enough, sorry guys at posit.
If any, we should all move to using Cursor AI ide

[rlativ]

You can drag the panels where ever you want them to be.

[NutSci]

I am new to R and I have started using Positron, but it crashes a lot on my PC.

[georgegl]

RStudio does its job. Well. This is just change for the sake of change.

[rubenbehnke]

I gotta admit I'm wondering what the purpose of positron is. Why try to compete with visual studio code? There's nothing wrong with RStudio. I'd say posit is trying to go too far with this effort. Just my thoughts....