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Debugging Compiled Code for R with Positron

by tylermw on 10/28/24, 1:01 PM with 10 comments

• by setgree on 11/1/24, 4:19 PM

  Pardon my shooting from the hip here, but IMO if you're using R for something radically different than statistical analysis and data visualization, you're probably better off using a tool/language that's more purpose-suited.

  > As someone who basically uses R as a nice LISP-y scripting language to orchestrate calling low-level compiled code from other languages

  When I read this, I think, would `bash` or something equally portable/universally installed work?

  R is a beautiful thing when limited to its core uses But in my experience, the more we build away from those core uses, the more brittleness we introduce. I wish the Posit team would focus on the core R experience, resolve some of the hundreds of open issues on its core packages in a timely way [0,1], and just generally play to R's strengths.

  [0] https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown/issues

  [1] https://github.com/tidyverse/ggplot2/issues

• by mdaniel on 10/30/24, 1:26 AM

  I dunno why you would blog about, and even create a blog tag for, Positron without linking to it :-/

  https://github.com/posit-dev/positron (Elastic V2)