Posit Open Source
Resources

Let's try Positron Assistant for the first time together

lil ai buddy #datascience #datasciencetok #python #swe #datavisualization #dataanalytics #codinglife #vscode #ide #rstudio #positron #pycharm #jupyter

Sep 10, 2025
0 min
RStudio Data Science Machine Learning Python Stats Tidyverse Data Visualization Data Viz Ggplot Technology Coding Connect Server Pro Shiny Rmarkdown Package Manager CRAN Interoperability Serious Data Science Dplyr Forcats Ggplot2 Tibble Readr Stringr Tidyr Purrr Github Data Wrangling Tidy Data Odbc Rayshader Plumber Blogdown Gt Lazy Evaluation Tidymodels Statistics Debugging Programming Education Rstats Open Source Oss Reticulate

image: thumbnail.jpg

Transcript#

This transcript was generated automatically and may contain errors.

Let's try Positron Assistant for the first time together, Positron Assistant is a built-in AI chat and code helper inside of Positron, powered by large language models like Claude and Copilot. You get both chat and inline code suggestions, it's data science context aware, sees your variables, data frames, plots, console sessions, and packages.

Getting started with Positron Assistant

Step one is to just turn it on, go to the settings menu and enable the Positron Assistant. From there you can connect to a provider, using Claude for chat or Copilot for autocomplete and you'll see a new assistant pane ready for your first question.

Step two is just to ask it something. Ask questions about what variables and data frames are in my workspace, show me a summary of data frame or plot distribution, or any suggestions to clean up this data frame or improve this plot.

You should use Positron Assistant for live context, as it knows your data, flows will stay intact, you code, visualize, iterate, all without leaving Positron, and exploration is made easy, beginners and pros both get dynamic help with cleaning, plotting, debugging, and understanding.

You should use Positron Assistant for live context, as it knows your data, flows will stay intact, you code, visualize, iterate, all without leaving Positron, and exploration is made easy, beginners and pros both get dynamic help with cleaning, plotting, debugging, and understanding.

Ask the model high-level questions, ask it to tweak your code, ask for visualizations or refactoring suggestions. Be sure to leave any questions in the comments below and follow along for more content like this.

Featured software#