In this episode of R Weekly Highlights: We have a six-month follow-up perspective from an early Positron user, how the current landscape of AI tools perform when learning the ropes with the Tidyverse, and how you can create your first Observable plot while using R for data munging.

Episode Links

This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy (Bluesky) & @carroll_jono (X/Twitter)
Positron: current joys and pains
Learning the tidyverse with the help of AI tools
Observable for R users
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2025-W15

Supplement Resources

Positron +1e https://open-vsx.org/extension/grrrck/positron-plus-1-e
Vanishing Gradients episode 47 (The Great Pacific Garbage Patch of Code Slop with Joe Reis) https://vanishinggradients.fireside.fm/47
Observable color palette viewer https://observablehq.com/plot/features/scales#color-scales
Observable Plots (R/Pharma 2024 Workshop Series) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6fP68XnacM

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