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 - @jonmcalder@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter) * @jonmcalder@bsky.social 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 posit::conf(2025) Agenda Chat Bot Supporting the show Use the contact page at 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: Get in touch with us on social media Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon), @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) Mike Thomas: @mike_thomas@fosstodon.org (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 -

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Issue 2025-W30 Highlights is an episode from R Weekly Highlights by Eric Nantz.

This episode is 00:32:16 long.

This episode was published on Jul 23, 2025.

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