What’s New in R: August 25, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a guide to porting an RStudio theme to Positron, a quick tour of Posit’s next-generation IDE, and a tutorial on downloading files from the Open Science Framework. Let’s dive in!
Porting my favorite RStudio color theme to Positron
Isabella Velásquez walks through how she brought her favorite RStudio color theme into Positron. She explains how Positron themes work, what needs to be translated from RStudio’s theming, and provides practical tips for tweaking tokens, UI elements, and syntax colors. The post includes code snippets and pointers for installing and selecting the theme so you can make Positron feel like home.
A quick tour of Positron
The Posit team offers a concise introduction to Positron, their next-generation, multi-language IDE built for R, Python, and more. The tour highlights key features like the command palette, integrated terminals and Git, language-aware editing, and seamless Quarto support. If you’re curious how Positron compares to RStudio and how to get started, this overview is a great first stop.
Easily download files from the Open Science Framework with Papercheck
Daniel Lakens shares practical ways to quickly download files and folders from OSF, helping streamline reproducible research workflows. This is a handy reference if you collaborate via OSF or want frictionless access to shared research assets.
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