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Github Copilot is best thought of as a thin layer of software engineering prompts/context over foundational models like Claude Sonnet & GPT-5-Codex, + excellent IDE integration. It's very good.

AFAIK Github Copilot was the original Copilot. It was (and is) a good product, but Microsoft couldn't resist capitalizing on the brand and slapping the "Copilot" label on literally anything it did that included the letters "A" and "I" in proximity.

Is #Positron going to replace #RStudio? 😱 (This is the worry I keep hearing lately 👀)

Posit Software Architect @jmcphers.bsky.social says, "there are certainly no plans to get rid of RStudio."

Watch the full #DSHangout video with Jonathan here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sROVZ83FNg

#rstats #databs

It really depends on the input! if I'm typing in a chat window or something it's really annoying to have to press anything other than enter, but anywhere that multi-line inputs are common, I live in fear of accidentally submitting when I just meant to add a line break.

I'm pretty sure they're just gonna table the issue

Fantastic, glad you could make it!

𝓦𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓵𝓲𝓮𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓯𝓻𝓾𝓲𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓬𝓪𝓶𝓮 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓲𝓷𝓷𝓮𝓻 𝓘 𝓼𝓱𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓫𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓽𝓱 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓮𝓮𝓭𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓭𝓮𝓪𝓭

summer squash pizza This is the very best kind of dinner: it has five ingredients including the ones to make the pizza dough. It’s seasonal and it doesn’t care what else you had planned; it wants to be moved to the fr…

we love this zucchini pizza which has you shred & drain (rather than slice) the zucchini. the texture is amazing. smittenkitchen.com/2016/08/summ...

* Gulf of America

Is ... is it smiling?

I hurt myself sleeping a few weeks ago.

Hadley Wickham in a white t-shirt and jeans sits on a light-colored couch across from Michael Chow, wearing a dark green shirt and pants, who is seated on an orange pouf. Between them is a white coffee table with books. In the background, there's a dark bar with shelves displaying numerous bottles, a wood-paneled wall, and a black, modern fireplace. Text overlay reads "Hadley Wickham CHIEF SCIENTIST, POSIT".

Ever wonder how the #tidyverse came to be? 🤔

#TheTestSet's first episode features @hadley.nz on his accidental empire of #RStats packages, bear encounters, and more!

Stream it at thetestset.co, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts.

#DataAnalytics #PodcastLaunch

hah, so there is! Added some notes there

it should not ignore this. we'll fix it. thanks for reporting! github.com/posit-dev/po...

RStudio is not being abandoned; it's still being actively developed and is getting some of Positron's features, most recently support for the Air code formatter and nicer treatment for errors/warnings in the console.

"Some things are too fun to stay in the past"?!

Eric, "It's that Time again" was RIGHT THERE

I love that game and so does my 6 year old daughter! The whimsical items and fast-but-not-stressful pace are just right.

Positron with a chat panel open with a question about fixing a ggplot plot

Positron now supports a chat panel with Claude and it's pretty neat

Side-by-side headshots of two men. On the left, a man with short, dark hair and a slightly raised eyebrow, wearing a black shirt, is posed against a light gray background. On the right, a man with short, light brown hair and glasses, smiling and wearing a navy blue shirt, is posed against a warm brown background.

TOMORROW IS A BIG #DSHANGOUT! We have 2 featured leaders, & they're both keynote speakers at #positconf2025 😍

Thurs May 29 @ 12pm ET meet:

👋🏼 Kieran Healy, professor of sociology at Duke
👋🏼 Jonathan McPherson, software architect at Posit

📆 Add to your calendar @ pos.it/dsh

#databs #rstats #python

I'm no fan of the tariffs but I think the glut of incredibly cheap toys from overseas has been bad for parents and kids. I would welcome a world with fewer toys, more carefully purchased.

We're delighted to announce Jonathan McPherson – software architect at Posit – as keynote speaker at posit::conf(2025)!

If you're curious about how thoughtful design principles can improve the data science tools you use, you won't want to miss this!

Join us Sep 16-18 in Atlanta. pos.it/conf

Air, an extremely fast R formatter We are thrilled to announce Air, a new R formatter.

@lionelhenry.bsky.social and I are so excited to finally announce Air - an extremely fast R code formatter! 🎉

With Air, you'll never need to worry about styling your #rstats code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest.

www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...

I have also tried this and didn't enjoy it. There's just no redeeming flavor behind the artificial capsaicin burn.

Good for TikTok dares, not good for lunch.

I really enjoyed your game "The Barkless Doctrine"!

Man, I have read these religiously for years. I hardly ever find time to watch the games but thanks to you I could feel like I was in the stadium for a few minutes every week and talk with my friends about the game. Thanks for the wit, humor, and passion you brought to the column. It'll be missed.

Fantastic!

Love Jon Hopkins, that's a great song

YouTube video by Posit PBC Introducing Positron, a new data science IDE - posit conf 2024

Talks from posit::conf 2024 are all online! Here's what I've been working on for the last couple of years.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uRc...

Thanks, I'd never heard of this game ... now I'm 20 minutes in and totally engrossed. The atmosphere is incredible.

Frontend should break up multiline selections that get sent to Console (by expression or by `\n`) · Issue #1326 · posit-dev/positron To reproduce, create a .R file that contains 50 lines, each of which has this text on it: # This is a long comment that takes a lot of space. It will be duplicated many times. Then, start (or resta...

This is a known issue - see github.com/posit-dev/po....