Install Positron
This lesson is called Install Positron, part of the R in 3 Months (Spring 2026) course. This lesson is called Install Positron, part of the R in 3 Months (Spring 2026) course.
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To learn more about Positron, check out:
If you have used the older editor RStudio and are interested in how it compares to Positron, check out this comparison from Posit as well as this blog post I wrote on the Pros and Cons of Positron.
There are many settings you can adjust within Positron. This article by Christopher Kenny gives you a sense of some of them.
In the video I show the VS Code Themes website. All of these themes work in Positron. Positron is what's known as a fork (i.e. a slightly different version) of the very popular VS Code editor so almost all extensions that work in VS Code will work in Positron too.
If you want to learn more about Quarto, here are a couple of resources:
The Quarto documentation website is a great place to start learning about Quarto. I also recommend the book, Quarto: The Practical Guide by Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and Charlotte Wickham.
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