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RStudio is now Posit
- kilbuz 4y agoThe rebrand makes a lot of sense, as the interest and support for Python in the DS/ML community keeps growing. I prefer R for data exploration and visualization, but knowing and leveraging both languages seems to be the way forward. Shiny for Python is a very interesting development. Kudos to RStudio (Posit) for delivering great product over the last decade+ and growing a kind, helpful community!
- nojito 4y agoQuarto is absolutely game changing.
- mi_lk 4y agosay more? I'm curious
- 1980phipsi 4y agoI don't want to speak for the person above, but I've used it a bit. It's like Jupyter Notebook with an eye towards producing really nice looking documents. It's pretty easy to use, though they are still working on it and it may not be feature-complete yet.
- mbreese 4y agoHow different is it from RMarkdown? I thought is was supposed to be quite similar. Because that is really nice to use when preparing analyses for collaborators. I’d like to get back to having more “compiled” style notebooks for things aside from just R.
- nojito 4y agoIt’s the successor to rmarkdown. The same team that worked on rmarkdown are working on quarto.
- Lyngbakr 4y agoI'm currently rebuilding my personal website with it and I'm really impressed. As with most RStudio products I've encountered over the years, I find it is intuitive, well documented, and quite powerful. I also think RStudio has played an important role in making the R community quite pleasant and inclusive.
- goosedragons 4y agoIs it? I liked Rmarkdown until I discovered org-mode and org-babel. It does a lot of stuff better like the option to tangle chunks into multiple files which is killer (last time I looked Rmarkdown still lacked that, not sure about Quarto) and the ability to do stuff like make a table in my text and then USE it in R for calculations is amazing for making examples or grabbing some random HTML table off a site and doing something.
- tmalsburg2 4y agoAgree. Org-babel makes the alternatives look like toys.
- jprd 4y ago"Org-Mode" requires the use of Emacs, though, correct? Can you offer a tool that doesn't involve having to join that cult, I'm asking for a friend who's already a loooooong time member of a completely different cult. One with less RSI, and RMS ;)
- tmalsburg2 4y agoRMS plays a negligible role in the Emacs ecosystem today. My solution to RSI was vi keybindings as implemented by evil mode.
- ansgri 4y agoYes it is, I’ve looked at various options to publish jupyter notebooks, finally found Quarto, and it’s a full publishing platform with surprisingly decent UX and easy customizability.
- shepherdjerred 4y agoI love Quarto! It's so much more pleasant than writing LaTeX, but you still get professional-looking documents with Python graphs that update themselves!
- forgotpwd16 4y agoRStudio the company changes name. RStudio the IDE will remain named as such (for time being at least).
- kgwgk 4y agoIt’s not just the company. Some RStudio products change their name - the “enterprise” offering. Another RStudio product doest’t - the open-source IDE.
- toddm 4y agoFrom Hadley's video blurb, the ringer is when he states "things just work" in the R environment vis-à-vis python (where he tactfully yet implicitly acknowledges the shitshow that is the python library/package/environment management). Kudos to the R community and supporters for providing a great and useful platform!
- martinsmit 4y agoAs a relatively new programmer who entered it through statistics, I've still yet to have a better UX or "it just works" moment than using the tidyverse. Years after moving to Julia, Python, and Rust I still go back to R to do any tabular data work. Speed isn't an issue, I always have data.table, and I'm productive in a way that I could only hope to be while doing non tabular data tasks. RStudio is the perfect IDE. REPL/command-line + Scripts + Plots. I could not be happier using it and I wish I could get VSCode to be half as good. Julia for VSCode is pretty good, but the Python science tooling goes 100% towards notebook environments which I'm not a huge fan of so the Python Science VScode experience is subpar.
- modriano 4y agoI've found the Jupiter lab IDE to be ideal for my DS and EDA workflows, which typically involves having several notebooks, scripts, and terminal windows open in the IDE. I switched from preferring R to python because having a global shared state across everything in RStudio kept switching the working directory or loading a different file than expected, and I just had very little confidence that things I wrote in R would be reproducible a few years on (which appears to have been a correct concern [0]). [0] https://datacolada.org/100 https://datacolada.org/100
- civilized 4y agoYou can have multiple RStudio instances open for different projects with different states, and you can use renv to manage package versions reproducibly. None of this is different or worse than python, which is well-known to have its own environment difficulties.
- sakras 4y agoI first thought this was an announcement about how R now uses Posits instead of IEEE-754 floats… I wonder if the rebrand will cause any confusion for either party down the line.
- layer8 4y agoYeah, I was wondering why they’re renaming to the name of a numerical data type. I posit that the name will cause confusion. :)
- Lev1a 4y agoI used RStudio in my university stats course, along with the strong recommendation by my professor to get the book "OpenIntro Statistics" (3rd edition back then). [1] I really couldn't care less about statistics, which like with many other topics/courses made/makes it incredibly hard for me to concentrate on and actually learn something about it. I could force the knowledge into my brain to be able to recite and use it in practice over and over again, but the moment the exams come around it's all gone from my head. That certainly made university very problematic. [1] Edit to add: I forgot to say that using RStudio was the only remotely pleasant part of that Stats course and in later courses where some stats work was needed.
- rossdavidh 4y agoIf a C-level executive says, "Posit is not about pivoting from R to Python...", then most likely, it's about pivoting from R to Python.
- kingo55 4y agoIt's Hadley Wickham of R's tidyverse though, so I'm more inclined to believe the claim.
- swyx 4y agoits a beautiful thing when personal credibility cuts through generic cynicism :)
- lordgroff 4y agoI'd be shocked if they drop R but I'd dance a jig if they can have the Python experience be as good in their IDE. I despise notebooks (i could write an essay), and developing with vs code is still very very clunky in comparison.
- nonethewiser 4y agoWhy do you despise notebooks? Optimized for reading over developing?
- nonethewiser 4y agoWhy do you despise notebooks? Optimized for reading over developing/running?
- d_sem 4y agoI've been a huge fan of the RStudio IDE for its Matlab-like look and feel and its support for R. I hope it continues to improve and continue to be a helpful tool for the community.
- scottmcdot 4y agoI don't understand the post. Are they going to offer a Python IDE equivalent to RStudio?
- ipsum2 4y agohttps://posit.co/products/open-source/rstudio/ https://posit.co/products/open-source/rstudio/ It would be useful to put a screenshot or some details about what RStudio is, the page is not very descriptive.
- c7b 4y agoSo this is not about RStudio the IDE but the company?
- rsrsrs86 4y agoGeez, I hate PR.
- kelsolaar 4y agoRStudio-2022.07.2-576 cannot start without R installed by the look of it: Error reading R script (), system error 2 (No such file or directory); Unable to find libR.dylib in expected locationswithin R Home directory /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources
- civilized 4y agoAs Meta demonstrated, it's important to change your name before accomplishing anything.
- wodenokoto 4y agoYes. Installing R is literally step 1 in the r studio installation instructions. https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/ https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/
- pmarreck 4y agoThat name's already taken by the possible successor to the terrible IEEE 754 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unum_(number_format)#Unum_III https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unum_(number_format)#Unum_III
- kasperset 4y agoHave used Rstudio IDE extensively for past 3 years but recently switched to VScode. VScode feels more refreshing as compared to RStudio. I love the extensions within VScode that allows it more flexibility as compared to RStudio. Also ability to view hex code as colors in the editor itself. Plus the ability to sync settings using GitHub is so convenient when using multiple computers. On the flip side, Rstudio is more convenient for beginners and being very R focused helps to focus on the "Statistics and data munging". As for the Rstudio as a company, they have supported Python in the past but with the Quarto they went to extend beyond that. I feel Quarto is still work in progress and has more ambitious outlook as compared to RMarkdown. RStudio cloud is a good option when one have to use specific version of R and alleviates the "Reproducibility" issue to some extent. Especially, when someone does not want to deal with Docker or similar platform. I think RStudio cloud is one of my favorite offering from the company.
- chrisgd 4y agoRaised a lot of capital from private equity recently too
- gtsnexp 4y agoStill unable to run it on Mac M1 Max. Anyone out there solved this?