Getting Started with Positron: A Next-Generation IDE for data science
useR! 2025
Friday August 8, 2025
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
useR! 2025
https://user2025.r-project.org/
Before the workshop
Bring your laptop with the latest version of Positron installed. See Setup for detailed instructions.
Schedule
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1:00 - 1:30 | Hello Positron |
| 1:30 - 2:00 | Exploring Positron |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Organization |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Break |
| 3:00 - 3:25 | Quarto |
| 3:25 - 3:50 | R |
| 3:50 - 4:15 | Customization and extensions |
| 4:15 - 4:30 | Wrap Up and Q&A |
Instructors
Jenny Bryan is a senior software engineer at Posit. Sheβs mostly on loan to the Positron team these days, but she keeps a hand in R package development, as part of the tidyverse team.
Julia Silge is an engineering manager at Posit, mostly focused on Positron these days. Previously, she worked on open source R (and Python) packages for MLOps, machine learning, and text analysis.
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.