Introducing multi-root workspace support: the Quarto Wizard now casts its spell across multiple realms! 🧙♂️✨
(Currently as pre-release: 0.15.0)
https://github.com/mcanouil/quarto-wizard
#Quarto #QuartoPub #RStats #VSCode #PositronIDE #Python #JuliaLang
@schochastics it’s online and accessible via the Quarto Wizard in #VSCode #PositronIDE #VSCodium 🥳
Once upon a time, in the land of Quarto, there lived a wise and benevolent Quarto Wizard. One day, whilst exploring the ancient libraries, he stumbled upon a magical listing of Quarto extensions. Recognising its immense value, he decided to share it with the people. With a flick of his wand, he made it possible to install these extensions with just a few clicks.
What kind of wizardry is this?! 🧙♂️🪄
🧙♂️✨ Dive into the Magic with Quarto Wizard!✨
Manage all your Quarto extensions effortlessly, straight from VSCode or Positron IDE. Simplify your workflow and unleash your creativity with just a few clicks.
I'm excited to announce the pre-release of Quarto Wizard 0.7.0! While this version focuses on internal changes designed to improve the overall experience, rest assured these updates are paving the way for bigger and better features in the future. 🌟
Stay tuned! Your patience and support are invaluable as I continue to refine and enhance Quarto Wizard. 🪄✨
#Quarto #QuartoPub #VSCode #PositronIDE #RSTats #Python #JuliaLang
In order to make things a little bit easier with Quarto, Quarto Wizard offers R/Python/Julia document templates to help share reproducible examples.
https://github.com/mcanouil/quarto-wizard?tab=readme-ov-file#readme
I hope you find this helpful.
#Quarto #QuartoPub #PositronIDE #VSCode #RStats #Python #JuliaLang
I love seeing all these #positronIDE posts with tips on settings etc. Really helpful stuff!
What I feel in missing, is a recording of how to efficiently work with the debugger. I'm very comfy in the #rstudio debugger, but can't seem to get the hang of Positron's.
If you use #RStats {targets} a lot, within #RStudio or #PositronIDE , you might want to try out the new(ish) `tar_assign` for workflows instead of `tar_plan` or making your own lists of targets.
Because `tar_assign` takes a wrapped code block (using `{ ... }` for multiline statements), the interpreter actually **sees** the variables properly, and can do tab completion on the variable names!
It's so nice. 🤩
https://docs.ropensci.org/tarchetypes/reference/tar_assign.html
(Now for something completely different)
Just read @jumpingrivers's first impressions of #PositronIDE:
https://www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/why-move-to-positron-r/
I find it mildly amusing that Posit found it easier to restart on top of the FLOSS #VSCode instead of further making #RStudio language-agnostic.
The data explorer seems very nice, and I really like that the UI will not hang when #RStats eats up the resources. It's a very unfamiliar UI, though, so I'll have to follow a tutorial someday.
New to me useful setting for #RStats interpreters in #PositronIDE : ability to pick one of the {rig} installed R versions for that project, regardless of which one is set to default.
Definitely a plus for projects that are using older versions of R.
Realizing that the editor window makes a really nice zoomed plot viewer for #RStats plots in #PositronIDE if you just save the plot to a PNG file using `ragg::agg_png` and then open it in an editor window.
But I got tired of putting in that key sequence very quickly.
So I made a function that takes `ggplot2::last_plot()` by default, but otherwise takes any plot object you want, and saves it to `_deleteme_plot.png` (or any other file of your choosing).
https://rmflight.github.io/flighttools/reference/ft_plot_temp_file.html
My `.Rprofile` had the line:
```
options(device='x11')
```
#RStudio is like, OK, whatever. #PositronIDE instead, is like, you want your plots to go to the X11 server, sure thing!
A (very weird) bug in #RStats #QuartoPub / #PositronIDE was keeping me from using Positron full time. It got fixed! So now that I'm using it more, finding more bugs. 2 today!
Newest one, if project doesn't use {renv}, then the plots get sent to the usual R plotting device, which is an X-server on Linux. Seriously, project without {renv}, plot goes to external window. With {renv}, suddenly the plot shows up in the plot pane of Positron.
Has anyone else encountered this?
Anyone else using #RStats `tar_plan` or `tar_assign` in #PositronIDE and also see variables not present in the outline view?
Just filed an issue, wondering if anyone else can chime in.
https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/issues/5241
Btw, the outline support just did get a major upgrade recently, would definitely check out the latest build if you use outlines a lot ....
Cool to see the web app HTML to Dataframe Converter backend already repurposed into a general VS Code/Positron plugin!
Nice work!
I was very much looking forward to trying #PositronIDE from Posit, the developers of #rstudio, but alas, they only serve a .deb package for Linux.
Maybe a flatpak is coming in the future?
@milesmcbain I tried VSpaceCode, and wasn't too keen on it. However, after setting up the #RStudio keymapping, my life got much better.
And in the latest build of #PositronIDE , I think the search from < Ctrl + . > got much better. Add in a shortcut to switch between the editor panes, and it's pretty nice.
So apparently I've been using the keyboard shortcuts in #RStudio really well, and combined with the little split Microsoft keyboard and upright mouse, have had tendonitis under control.
I think switching to #PositronIDE may be causing me to use my mouse more, as a tendon on the top of my right hand is suddenly inflamed and irritated.
Besides enabling RStudio shortcuts, should I just be using the command palette more??
I may be looking at a wireless rollerball this week too.
Taking the new #PositronIDE from @Posit for a spin! I have a project that has both Python and R components so should be good for a test drive.
