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Positron, a next-generation data science IDE

17 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 4 stories, 13 comments · first 2024-06-27 · latest 2025-08-19

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  1. …they end up confusing the newer generations among the crowd. [1] https://opensource.org/osd [2] https://github.com/posit-dev/positron?tab=License-1-ov-file#...
    comment by panbd · 2025-08-19 · in Positron, a New Data Science IDE
  2. …considering for that is respecting Quarto's plot dimensions when rendering to our own Plots pane: https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/issues/3676 Inline plots are pretty challenging, especially in source mode since (so far) Positron…
    comment by jmcphers · 2025-08-19 · in Positron, a New Data Science IDE
  3. …mode when working with inline Quarto output? You can follow the Positron feature request over here: https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/issues/5640
    comment by jmcphers · 2025-08-19 · in Positron, a New Data Science IDE
  4. https://github.com/posit-dev/positron The source code looks very open. This moving the goal posts of open-source to exclude anyone making money off of it is annoying. I can get the project for FREE and I can see the source code and make…
    comment by ecshafer · 2025-08-19 · in Positron, a New Data Science IDE
  5. …and we are tracking interest in that here, if you would like to add a thumbs up or additional info: https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/issues/3679
  6. There seems to be a GH discussion wherein they explain the choice: https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/discussions/3820 If you find that interesting, there are actually quite a few others https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte-platform/blob…
  7. Why not mix R and Python in interactive analysis workflows: 1) Download positron: https://github.com/posit-dev/positron 2) Set up a quarto (.qmd) notebook 3) Set up R and Python code chunks in tour quarto document 4a) Use reticulate to…
    comment by aquafox · 2025-04-11 · in Big Book of R
  8. I dunno why you would blog about, and even create a blog tag for, Positron without linking to it :-/ https://github.com/posit-dev/positron (Elastic V2)
  9. …isnt quite the same - but its super dope: https://www.appsilon.com/post/introducing-positron https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/blob/main/README.md
  10. …Positron, which is currently beta. It's created by Posit (the company formerly known as RStudio). https://github.com/posit-dev/positron
  11. …in the Palette. We do hope to add better GUI tooling for project-level actions; more info here: https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/issues/1486
  12. …years of applied optimizations for R data analysis and package development. Cross-posting the FAQ: https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/wiki/Frequently-Asked-...
    comment by thomas_mock · 2024-06-28 · in Maker of RStudio launches new R and Python IDE
  13. …may not remove or obscure any functionality in the software that is protected by the license key. https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/blob/main/LICENSE.txt
    comment by josephcsible · 2024-06-28 · in Maker of RStudio launches new R and Python IDE