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pmcm Jan 15, 2023

Wow. RStudio (recently rebranded as Posit) is partnering with Palantir. Yes, the same Palantir with ties to Cambridge Analytica. The same Palantir that partners with and actively supports ICE and other oppressive surveillance.

This is really not ok ethically, and can only mean a bad direction functionally for the company's software going forward. I never use RStudio for research myself, but it looks like I'll stop using it in teaching.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/palantir-posit-partner-integrate-rstudio-115900656.html

#rstudio #palantir #posit #ice

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Thomas Jan 22, 2023

@peter_mcmahan I've never liked RStudio as the marketing messages have had an air of "embrace of death". I've been using NVIM-R from the start. It's certainly not that easy to get used to but it even runs on a Raspberry Pi (certainly good enough for learning, see link below). Working with a lightweight installation has the advantage that a complete R installation can be put in a Docker image. For reproducibility this is as good as it gets.

https://gist.github.com/TG9541/4b776abd1238c9c226f7f6261e4f29b1

Using R on a Raspberry Pi Zero W

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pmcm Jan 22, 2023

@tg9541 nvim-r looks very cool, I'll check it out. Definitely not going to try to teach my students vim, though 😆

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Thomas

@peter_mcmahan right, it's known to be the original ESCape room ;-)

I love it, though - once the hands "know" the keystrokes it's a wonderful environment. I've also used it in combination with the Awesome window manager - really nice.