Issue 2025-W30 Highlights

In episode 208 of R Weekly Highlights, the LLM train keeps moving along in the data science community: First impressions of the new Positron Assistant for code completion and basic package development, plus a friendly app for exploring the upcoming posit::conf(2025) agenda created by one of our talented R Weekly curators! Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter) * @[email protected] Positron Assistant: GitHub Copilot and Claude-Powered Agentic Coding in R Your LLM-powered guide to the posit::conf(2025) agenda Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2025-W30 Supplement Resources Positron Assistant https://positron.posit.co/assistant posit::conf(2025) Agenda Chat Bot https://posit-ai-posit-conf-agenda-chat.share.connect.posit.cloud/ Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact to send us your feedback R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index. A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info Get in touch with us on social media Eric Nantz: @[email protected] (Mastodon), @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) Mike Thomas: @[email protected] (Mastodon), @mike-thomas.bsky.social (BlueSky), and @mike_ketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemix The Quick and the Blue - Mega Man 2 - The Megas - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02090