Mitchell O'Hara-Wild
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Mitchell O'Hara-Wild
@mitchelloharawild.com
Data scientist, #rstats developer, and educator.
Passionate about permaculture, automated systems and design (🐝🥚🍅🌻🍄🤖).
When changing outputs, I consider how people use the results. If outputs are intermediates used with your other (updated) functions, most user code may not even break. I went through this with fable's forecast output, most users used autoplot() or hilo() with the output, so very little code broke.
November 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I'll still be teaching classes in RStudio for now, and probably for at least a year longer. While I strongly prefer using the code editor and personally have trouble with inline outputs, I do hope that they add them to (at least) the visual editor. I find my students like inline outputs too 😊
August 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
From >10 years of RStudio for R, and the occasional vscode or basic text editor for other languages that RStudio was too frustrating to work with.
August 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Have you tried it? I'm also mostly desktop use with some cloud, and I've found both experiences to be better in Positron so far.
August 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Yes! I know some people love the git pane in RStudio, but I sure don't. I'm using Sublime Merge at the moment, but I'll be trying out the built-in git client 😊
August 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The shiny app is run on my own server using the rocker/shiny docker image.
August 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It's also of course open-source, see how it was made here: github.com/mitchellohar...

Many thanks to Sam Parmar (github.com/parmsam) for making a similar app for posit::conf(2025) that I could adapt and extend for JSM2025.
August 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
It's my first time experimenting with RAGs for LLMs, and it was surprisingly easy to do in #rstats with ragnar, ellmer, and shinychat 🤩
August 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM