As programming languages go, there’s no denying that Python is hot. Originally created as a general-purpose scripting language, Python somehow became the most popular language for data science. But is ...

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Posit, formerly RStudio, has released a beta of Positron, a ‘next generation’ data science development environment based on Visual Studio Code. The company best known for RStudio, the leading ...

RStudio is changing its corporate name to Posit, signaling the company’s plans to expand its focus beyond R to include users of Python and Visual Studio Code. The public announcement came this morning ...

If you're a data scientist and need to analyze loads of CSV files for insights into, say, stock-price and market movements, the Julia programming language trumps machine-learning rivals Python and R, ...

Positron is Posit's new, free IDE for data science. Users can work with Python and R. It explicitly does not replace RStudio. A central feature of Positron is the Variable & Data Frame Explorer. It ...