Simon P. Couch @simonpcouch.com · Mar 5

Today we're releasing AI for RStudio. It's really, really good—I'd encourage you to point it at the messiest data sources you have and see what it can do. www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-03...

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Crystal Lewis · Mar 5

This might be a dumb question, but I'm assuming you don't want to use this if you are working with sensitive/identifiable data?

Lief Esbenshade · Mar 5

Awesome! Any timeline for a positron release? I’m in the middle of a project that Claude code is not cutting it on and I want to try something better for data work.

Gardenthor · Mar 5

::Heavy Breathing::

Josiah · Mar 5

i'm just realizing that claude opus got "lat/lon" order wrong in the description but got it right in the code....

Josiah · Mar 5

Is it possible to use claude code subscription rather than an API key here? I'd like to see if I can get my wife hooked up. She's been struggglinggg with gemini cli + R

John Sakaluk · Mar 5

Very interesting/exciting (and congrats to y'all's team)! Perhaps a dumb q: this looks great for data science purposes (and will prob. be my default suggestion to my students), but any idea how it fares for development? Currently using (and happy w/) Cursor for 📦 stuff, but remain open to alts.