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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)
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Pardon me for shooting from the hip here, but IMO if you're using R for something radically different than statistical analysis and data visualization, there might be another tool/language that's more purpose-suited.
> As someone who basically uses R as a nice LISP-y scripting language to orchestrate calling low-level compiled code from other languages
When I read this, I think, would `bash` or something equally portable/universally installed work?
R is a beautiful thing when limited to its core uses (I use it every day ([0]). But in my experience, the more we build away from those core uses, the more brittleness we introduce. I wish the Posit team would focus on the core R experience, resolve some of the hundreds of open issues on its core packages in a timely way, [1,2] and just generally play to R's strengths.
[0] https://github.com/hsflabstanford/vegan-meta
[1] https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown/issues
[2] https://github.com/tidyverse/ggplot2/issues
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Pardon me for shooting from the hip here, but IMO if you're using R for something radically different than statistical analysis and data visualization, there might be another tool/language that's more purpose-suited.
> As someone who basically uses R as a nice LISP-y scripting language to orchestrate calling low-level compiled code from other languages
When I read this, I think, would `bash` or something equally portable/universally installed work?
R is a beautiful thing when limited to its core uses (I use it every day ([0]). But in my experience, the more we build away from those core uses, the more brittleness we introduce. I wish the Posit team would focus on the core R experience, resolve some of the hundreds of open issues on its core packages in a timely way, [1,2] and just generally play to R's strengths.
[0] https://github.com/hsflabstanford/vegan-meta
[1] https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown/issues
[2] https://github.com/tidyverse/ggplot2/issues
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Pardon me for shooting from the hip here, but IMO if you're using R for something radically different than statistical analysis and data visualization, there might be another tool/language that's more purpose-suited.
> As someone who basically uses R as a nice LISP-y scripting language to orchestrate calling low-level compiled code from other languages
When I read this, I think, would `bash` or something equally portable/universally installed work?
R is a beautiful thing when limited to its core uses (I use it every day ([0]). But in my experience, the more we build away from those core uses, the more brittleness we introduce. I wish the Posit team would focus on the core R experience, resolve some of the hundreds of open issues on its core packages in a timely way, [1,2] and just generally play to R's strengths.
[0] https://github.com/hsflabstanford/vegan-meta
[1] https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown/issues
[2] https://github.com/tidyverse/ggplot2/issues
