Quarto Wizard 2.0.0 is out!

Native extension management, batch operations, multi-extension selection, private repo support, and a new documentation website.

Upgrade today: https://mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2026-01-12-quarto-wizard-2-0-0/

#QuartoWizard #Quarto #VSCode #PositronIDE

My favorite new trick for long running #RStats code, use `Rscript` in a shell and put the job in the background so if I accidentally close the shell it keeps running.

```
Rscript -e 'tar_make()' &
```

Even with two consoles in #PositronIDE, if one is constantly active running a `targets` job, weird things seem to happen with the outline and autocomplete in the second one.

Some code completion suggestions are helpful in #PositronIDE, but the writing suggestions in Quarto and markdown files get me crazy. Finally discovered how to turn them off!

In Settings (gear icon at bottom left), turn off the "Editor > Inline Suggest" and "Inlay Hints" settings. You can do it just for certain file types, like @lang:quarto, @lang:plaintext and @lang:markdown - search and then disable in the correct workspace.

Videos from September's posit::conf data science conference are already live on YouTube! 🎉🎉🎉See the full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9HYL-VRX0oTixlfDPCS5RW_F1pccERRe

So many interesting talks you can now watch free, on topics like #RStats #Python #GenAI #LLMs @Posit 's #PositronIDE #QuartoPub

Any other #PositronIDE users on Linux where horizontal scroll in the Data Viewer just suddenly broke in the 2025.10 release?

We could use your help if it has.

https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/issues/10043

#RStats

🎉 The magic is real: Quarto Wizard 1.0.0 is LIVE!

Wave goodbye to complexity, pure enchantment awaits:

🪄 Magical extension browsing (250+ spells available)
✨ One-click installation wizardry
🔮 VS Code & Positron enchantment

https://quarto.org/docs/blog/posts/2025-10-20-quarto-wizard-1-0-0/

#DataScience #ReproducibleResearch #Quarto #QuartoPub #VSCode #PositronIDE

I've been avoiding trying the #PositronIDE remote session stuff due to having a intermediate machine that we use to connect to lab machines.

I searched through the SSH stuff today to find a possible solution, and discovered the ProxyCommand and/or ProxyJump that lets you connect through one host to another without stopping to officially start a second SSH session.

And it works! Positron connects and starts a session!

#RStats

https://superuser.com/questions/107679/forward-ssh-traffic-through-a-middle-machine

#RStats #PositronIDE `renv` Linux users, could you chime in on whether you experience this particular bug when trying to debug functions installed via `renv` vs those in the system library.

https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/issues/9280