What’s New in R: August 4, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring tips for quickly opening Positron projects on macOS, a look at a customized version of RStudio with AI capabilities, and a talk on creating interactive data visualizations in R. Let’s dive in!
How to open a folder as a Positron project with macOS Quick Actions
This is very niche, but if you use Positron and want to quickly open up projects, Andrew Heiss offers some great tips. I use Raycast and use this approach to quickly open projects in Positron.
Lotas AI: Revolutionizing Data Analysis
Lotas AI is not something that I’ve seen, but I came across it recently on Hacker News. It’s essentially a customized version of RStudio with some fancy AI stuff built in.
Visualise, Optimise, Parameterise!
Cara Thompson is one of the best out there for showing how to make great data viz in R. In this talk, she goes over how to make great data viz and parameterize it to make multiple (interactive) plots automatically.
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