Feature suggestion: switch between console and shell (like radian/Julia/arf) · Issue #12944 · posit-dev/positron Request to make it possible for the Console to have a modal switch that puts it in shell mode. This is inspired by Julia's interactive shell, where typing ; puts you in "shell mode", wherein comman...

Update: here's an issue tracking shell mode (;) in particular, if you want to weigh in/upvote: github.com/posit-dev/po...

Oh, I see! Yes, those are special modes of the Julia REPL that aren't currently available in the Positron REPL.

Yeah, we (at Posit) don't really have the Julia expertise needed to make this great, so we're hopeful the Julia community can help!

Can you say a little more about pulling the REPL into the console? Is there a Julia IDE that does this well?

🤦‍♂️https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/issues/8940

There's a third party Julia extension for Positron! It makes Julia a peer of R and Python in Positron. open-vsx.org/extension/nt...

OK, great! Let us know if it gives you any more trouble.

This should totally work. Try using Ctrl+Space to trigger completions. If you still aren't seeing them, open a discussion with some screenshots & your Positron version and we'll take a look! github.com/posit-dev/po...

had a lot of fun with this game in S1, great work!

A screenshot of an RStudio window. On the left-hand side is a new pain called Posit Assistant. The Posit Assistant had recently run code making a lat-lon plot of Washington state, colored by whether the point had been marked as forested or not.

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...

A screenshot of Windows Explorer showing the Downloads folder with two files categorized beneath "Tomorrow"

Got the new Windows 11 update, and I have to say it's pretty handy to know what I'm going to download tomorrow

If you're referring to the plots pane, does this setting do what you want? (aspect ratio -> fill)

If not, could you open a discussion with some screenshots to let us know what you're seeing? github.com/posit-dev/po...

Thanks for tracking that down and for the great writeup! We'll take a look.

Haven't seen something like this before. Please file a bug on our issue tracker if you can narrow it down!

github.com/posit-dev/po...

10 Years of Data Science Tools...and What Happens Next (Jonathan McPherson) | posit::conf(2025) YouTube video by Posit PBC

My keynote about data science tools at posit::conf is now online! I originally meant it to be a talk about Positron, but as I was writing it, it took a left turn through the history of RStudio and into the philosophy of tool design & how to build stuff for people.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGre...

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!

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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