RStudio provided a lot of good service but I agree that Positron will be even better
Rstudio makes this actively harder for new students, though, since it doesn't have a file tree on the LHS of the editor like VS Code. Navigating a folder is clunky and students can never really visualize a nested folder full of files. Positron will fix all this though. Can't come soon enough!
I ran into this problem about 6 or 7 years ago. I might have been deaf to it for a year or few before that. But it seems thats about the time frame for when this started. Came up with the same solution. Ps, using the Rstudio online workspace made the problem go away.
Not just RStudio, but any programming class. One the one hand, as Olivier says, students have different background & tech knowledge. On the other, students in tech programs should ABSOLUTELY have this prerequisite skill before their 400-level/grad classes, and it’s infuriating when they do not.
Once I get on my home computer with Rstudio, I'm going to see if large apartments with non-family households have increased significantly in the Bay from 2008-12 to 2018-22, broken out by county and maybe even by subcounty area
Students aren’t idiots Mine are actually very smart They just aren’t used to work like this with a computer Once I explained things and showed how the "Files" tab in RStudio reflects a specific folder in the Finder, they immediately got it You just need to show them once how it works
Same! Loving Positron, but finding I still need RStudio around for the rendering to work properly at the moment. I guess it's beta, so hopefully it'll get sorted out as things develop.
Not yet—that’s the only thing I use RStudio for anymore :( bsky.app/profile/andr...
I've only had to jump over to RStudio for quicker/easier plot size tinkering in Quarto/Rmd files since Positron can't resize plots based on chunk parameters (yet! there's an open issue for it github.com/posit-dev/po...)
I'm not sure if this is a Positron thing, a knitr/R Markdown thing, or a Quarto thing. It was addressed and supported in RStudio (see rstudio/rstudio#11708 (comment)), and there's (kind of) an issu...