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by mscbuck 65 days ago
In my opinion, RStudio is still the best data science IDE and it's not even close. I've been using Positron a bit more lately just for Claude Code reasons, as I prefer having the pane itself rather than using the terminal, but man it's really tough to shake RStudio. Even with the work put into configuring VSCode to get it kind of close to it, it still just always feels a bit janky.
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Emacs + ESS is superior IMO. RStudio has a bunch of frills I don't care about and doesn't let me configure files as I'd like. ESS showing the function signature in the minibuffer to me is the killer feature. Wish I could get that for EVERYTHING.