Overview
What is Posit?
Posit, formerly RStudio, is a modular data science platform, combining open source and commercial products.
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Popular Features
- Visualization (26)8.484%
- Connect to Multiple Data Sources (25)8.181%
- Extend Existing Data Sources (26)7.474%
- Automatic Data Format Detection (25)6.363%
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What is Posit?
Posit, formerly RStudio, is a modular data science platform, combining open source and commercial products.
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What is Posit Workbench? Build Data Products in R & Python using Jupyter, VSCode, and RStudio.
Posit Connect | Host all of the data products you create
Features
Platform Connectivity
Ability to connect to a wide variety of data sources
- 8.1Connect to Multiple Data Sources(25) Ratings
Ability to connect to a wide variety of data sources including data lakes or data warehouses for data ingestion
- 7.4Extend Existing Data Sources(26) Ratings
Use R or Python to create custom connectors for any APIs or databases
- 6.3Automatic Data Format Detection(25) Ratings
Automatic detection of data formats and schemas
Data Exploration
Ability to explore data and develop insights
- 8.4Visualization(26) Ratings
The product’s support and tooling for analysis and visualization of data.
- 8.4Interactive Data Analysis(23) Ratings
Ability to analyze data interactively using Python or R Notebooks
Data Preparation
Ability to prepare data for analysis
- 8.2Interactive Data Cleaning and Enrichment(23) Ratings
Access to visual processors for data wrangling
- 8.3Data Transformations(25) Ratings
Use visual tools for standard transformations
Platform Data Modeling
Building predictive data models
- 8.2Multiple Model Development Languages and Tools(21) Ratings
Access to multiple popular languages, tools, and packages such as R, Python, SAS, Jupyter, RStudio, etc.
- 8.4Single platform for multiple model development(21) Ratings
Single place to build, validate, deliver, and monitor many different models
- 8Self-Service Model Delivery(18) Ratings
Multiple model delivery modes to comply with existing workflows
Model Deployment
Tools for deploying models into production
- 8.4Flexible Model Publishing Options(17) Ratings
Publish models as REST APIs, hosted interactive web apps or as scheduled jobs for generating reports or running ETL tasks.
- 9Security, Governance, and Cost Controls(15) Ratings
Built-in controls to mitigate compliance and audit risk with user activity tracking
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What is Posit?
Posit, formerly RStudio, provides a modular data science platform that combines open-source and commercial products.
their open source offerings, such as the RStudio IDE, Shiny Server, rmarkdown and the many packages in the tidyverse, boast users among data scientists around the world to enhance the production and consumption of knowledge by everyone, regardless of economic means.
Their commercial software products, including Posit Workbench, Posit Connect, and Posit Package Manager, are available as a bundle in Posit Team. These products aim to give organizations the confidence to adopt R, Python and other open-source data science software at scale. This enables data science teams using R and Python to deliver interactive reports and applications to decision-makers, leverage large amounts of data, integrate with existing enterprise systems, platforms, and processes, and be compliant with security practices and standards.
The platform is complemented by online services, including Posit Cloud and shinyapps.io, to make it easier to do, teach and learn data science, and share data science insights with others, over the web.
Posit’s open-source software and commercial software form what the vendor describes as a virtuous cycle: The adoption of open-source data science software at scale in organizations creates demand for Posit’s commercial software; and the revenue from commercial software, in turn, enables deeper investment in the open-source software that benefits everyone.
Posit Features
Platform Connectivity Features
- Supported: Connect to Multiple Data Sources
- Supported: Extend Existing Data Sources
- Supported: Automatic Data Format Detection
Data Exploration Features
- Supported: Visualization
- Supported: Interactive Data Analysis
Data Preparation Features
- Supported: Interactive Data Cleaning and Enrichment
- Supported: Data Transformations
Platform Data Modeling Features
- Supported: Multiple Model Development Languages and Tools
- Supported: Single platform for multiple model development
- Supported: Self-Service Model Delivery
Model Deployment Features
- Supported: Flexible Model Publishing Options
- Supported: Security, Governance, and Cost Controls
Additional Features
- Supported: Share Data Science insights in the form of Shiny applications, Quarto content, R Markdown reports, Plumber APIs, dashboards, Jupyter Notebooks, and interactive Python content.
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Posit Integrations
- Amazon SageMaker
- Kubernetes
- Apache Spark
- Jupyter Notebook
- Streamlit
- Tableau Desktop
- Azure Machine Learning
- Databricks Lakehouse Platform
- Microsoft Visual Studio Code
- Bokeh
- Slurm
- Dash applications
- SAML Marketplaces
Posit Competitors
Posit Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
Mobile Application | No |
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Intuitive User Interface: Users have found RStudio to have an intuitive user interface that allows them to quickly test and debug code. This has been mentioned by numerous reviewers, highlighting the ease of use and convenience it offers in coding tasks.
Seamless Integration with Git: The seamless integration of RStudio with Git has been praised by users, making it easy for them to manage version control. Several reviewers have specifically mentioned this as a major advantage of using RStudio for their coding projects.
Powerful Statistical Analysis Tool: Many users appreciate RStudio's capabilities as a powerful tool for statistical analysis and data exploration. They mention its ability to import data from multiple sources, apply machine learning models easily, and export data into various channels.
Confusing and Outdated User Interface: Several users have expressed dissatisfaction with the user interface of RStudio, finding it confusing, unattractive, and outdated compared to other tools. They feel that the interface is too technical for business people.
Frequent Crashes with Large Datasets: Some users have mentioned that RStudio frequently crashes when loading large amounts of data. This can be frustrating and disrupt their workflow.
Lack of Integration with Other Applications: Users have pointed out that RStudio is not as integrated with other applications as Python. This limitation makes it less convenient for users who rely on seamless integration between different software tools.
Users commonly recommend RStudio for beginners in R programming and data analytics. They believe that RStudio is a good tool for learning machine learning and recommend using it for data work, programming R code for machine learning, implementing R software, data analysis, and data science. Users consider RStudio to be a great resource for analyzing data and necessary for anyone who wants to get into R programming. While considering other suites and languages like Python, they still recommend taking a look at RStudio for data analysis. Additionally, users find RStudio to be useful for doing statistics and creating professional plots and figures. They suggest familiarizing oneself with common libraries in the field and doing online tutorials before starting to use RStudio. Users warn about the steep learning curve but believe it is worth investing the time to learn it. Moreover, they recommend using RStudio for big data and epidemiological research.
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(26-50 of 122)RStudio Is the Best R GUI for any price, let alone free!
- Troubleshooting of Code.
- Color Coding of different elements of code.
- Adding new packages.
- Infinitely customizable.
- Better Resource Analysis.
- Better progress bars.
- Debugging could use a little improvement.
RStudio is Very Useful but Needs Improvements
- good visual design environment
- Allows you to quickly see your data set in tabular form
- Manages package list/download well
- When rendering a plot, there are several issues bringing it more smoothly to copy/paste it to a slide deck, etc. It is very frustrating that the aspect ratio, etc. visual quality is not consistent from when you originally render to when copy/paste or downloading as a file to later be put in a slide.
- My resolution changes between laptop mode and desktop mode (plugging into external monitors). In desktop mode I literally have to shut RStudio down and restart/reload/rerun to continue my project. HOW DO I fix this? Is there a way. I've seen a toggle that says it can bounce back and forth depending on device type but it doesn't seem to work!
- When a program hangs, there is a red stop sign ( I think) in console corner to end the process. This requires, however that I need to complete restart RStudio and restart/reload/rerun etc. Can't it just start but keep all packages, datasets, variables in memory?
An almost one-stop shop for your analytics needs
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Integrating multiple programming languages
- Providing creators with the resources to develop gold-standard packages
- I have never been able to successfully replace my SQL editor with RStudio since the SQL drivers are so hard to set up. I would eventually love to be able to use RStudio as a one-stop-shop.
RStudio for R!
Through the products - e.g., web app, API, reports - that were built using the publishing platform (RStudio Connect), every users in the company were able to access analytics applications designed specifically for individual use cases.
- Integration with databases.
- User community.
- Integration with other software/languages.
- Lacks stability.
- Memory management.
As RStudio continues to expand its adoption of other languages and IDE - e.g., Python, VS Code - and leverages its seamless develop-test-deploy workflow, the platform is suitable for analytics team who desire full control and flexibility of product development with little overhead when publishing to production.
RStudio: Difficult Learning Curve with Matching Pay Off
- Data Organization
- Multi-Linear Regression
- Data Visualization
- Time-Series Forecasting
- As a scripting language, it is not a pick up and go platform. You need to spend the time to learning the program.
- Platform versions and Package versions often do not align.
- Would love to see standard templates that would generate a basic code for statistical models. This could save time and help newer users learn how to operate the program.
This is NOT a pick up and go platform as we are used to. It has hundreds of advantages and can be customized to near perfection. Yet, it will require many hours of investment. I would suggest looking at other pre-built platforms if the team is smaller.
The R-Studio suite is a well thought out solution to development, control and publishing r apps and services.
- Centralised admin
- Ability to manage allocations of CPU / RAM per user
- SSO
- Set up can be complex
- Automated updates via the admin screens
It's more a tool to get a idea out and in front of people as quickly, so that you can see which apps have traction with end users so they can be further developed.
RStudio for quick prediction prototyping
- We use it for a quick visual representation of data
- We do exploratory data analysis to understand data
- We do predictions using RStudio
- When we have to run 100 iterations using more than 10000 records, RStudio gets stuck or takes a very very long time to respond
- Generating a pdf report from an RMD file is very difficult from RStudio.
- Generating a pdf report in RStudio cloud is straightforward and inbuilt.
RStudio - Dire wolf of "Game of Data Science"
- Abundant development on statistical and data science libraries.
- Interaction with other programming languages and BI tools.
- Customized application building and reporting framework through shiny and markdown.
- Simple IDE with competent and robust functionalities.
- Strong and active community.
- Highly approachable core members and teams @Rstudio.
- Integration with Google Cloud Platform.
- Flexibility of choosing a remote R-interpreter (as is present in IntelliJ/PyCharm).
- Memory issues and slowdowns when it comes to working with large datasets.
- Orchestration of production workflows with Airflow.
- Production pipelines for RStudio Connect content.
RStudio is the Swiss Army knife of R Solutions
- Excellent integration of both R and Python IDEs in one.
- Simple publishing of dashboards and applications from RStudio IDE to RStudio Connect.
- Integration of package management with projects to support collaboration.
- Excellent contributors to the R Open Source community, really invested in its health.
- Support integration with Enterprise AD environments for security.
- Python integration is newer and still can be rough, especially with when using virtual environments.
- RStudio Connect pricing feels very department focused, not quite an enterprise perspective.
- Some of the RStudio packages don't follow conventional development guidelines (API breaking changes with minor version numbers) which can make supporting larger projects over longer timeframes difficult.
RStudio helps data scientists get things done faster
We help our colleagues to better understand the financial health of the company through profit and loss evaluation, risk underwriting and portfolio review. RStudio helps us bridge the gap between Data and Solution, we tell story through data visualization and reproducible analytical documents that are easy to grasp by our colleagues.
- Great selection of libraries to do statistics, machine learning, data visualization, interactive dashboards
- RStudio Connect makes sharing your work with your colleague a breeze using one-click publishing.
- The ability to connect R with other languages like Julia and Python all within the same working session helps generate more creative ways to solve problems. We can use Julia in R to speed up intensive calculation, or we can use Python Tensorflow or Pytorch in R to do deep learning.
- R has a great community on social media and stackoverflow so it's very easy to learn from the other users.
- The learning curve may be a little steep for new R users
- There are multiple ways to solve a problem. For example, there are mlr3 and tidymodels to build predictive models, and there are tidyverse and data.table to perform data cleaning. It could be confusing and overwhelming for new users to decide which libraries to learn and use.
R is single-threaded, so it may not be suitable when you need to scale your application to many users. For example, if you have a shiny app with R, the performance may slow down when multiple users are in the app. People are addressing this issue in several ways, however, so this may not be a deal-breaker.
RStudio is the only IDE you need for R
- RStudio ticks most of the IDE boxes for R users: autocompletion, an overview of your current environment, an interface for files in the working directory and a way to interact with plots in the GUI.
- Combined with the tidyverse set of packages, you can do most of your database work, plus work faster and smarter, in both the interactive environment and in scripts.
- RStudio's snippets functionality allows you to quickly access the bits of boilerplate code you find yourself typing over and over and to paste them in with just a few keypresses.
- Though they're currently developing ways to extend RStudio, ie. add-ons, the environment and hooks needed are still fairly limited.
- Package management is available, but could be simplified even further.
- Git integration is great and provides are really useful way to view diffs. However, I still run into a few bugs here and there that force me to drop back to the terminal.
- Best IDE for R programming.
- Good ecosystem for R Markdown and R Shiny.
- RStudio Connect is very useful for publishing and user authentication.
- It could have its own consulting team to support company to build R related products instead of partnering.
- It could also offer tailored paid training for small and large companies.
I do sometimes find RStudio to get stuck and slow when the code became long, so that is a place for enhancement.
Well Suited for Data Visualization and Modeling
- Debugging
- Front-end interface to R
- Provide shortcuts to some R commands
- RStudio connect experience was not very smooth
- Web service configuration for the RStudio server is not very intuitive
- Some Visual DataGrid GUI would be beneficial
RStudio is amazing, the future of Data Science
- Amazing user interface
- Great package development
- Incredible simple to use
- Joyful team & community
- NLP, a package (wrapper) for major models (ex: GPT3), just as for Keras-Tensorflow
RStudio provides stable and trusted open source tools in a market frequently flooded by trendy and soon-to-be abandoned software
- Excellent Documentation
- Well-designed Features
- RStudio Connect could really benefit from containerized environments to enable isolated, reproducible content.
- RStudio Connect's pricing model is a little frustrating at times. Infrequent consumers of content cost the same as heavy users who publish content regularly. This limits our ability to share the work of our data scientists at a reasonable cost. We would much rather pay more for each "publisher" seat and have much cheaper or free "viewer" seats. This would also likely lead to a greater investment in RStudio Connect on our part, as we would be able to expose the platform to more team members and key funding decision makers.
RStudio--Standing on the shoulders of giants
- Coordinate data wrangling with visualizations
- Interactions with other software
- Project management
- Function name autofill
- Speed
- More and clearer detail on dashboard bugs
- Seamless integration with professional quality reporting packages (R Markdown, xaringan, Sweave), other coding languages (Markdown, SQL, Python, C++), version control, and the terminal
- Environment management (using Rprojects)
- Pop-up tool tips for function arguments
- Tab completion!
- Change the default global options to not save Rdata sets between instances; this is very unfriendly for beginner users
- Better GUI support for exporting images out of the viewer pane
RStudio for data maturity
- User friendly.
- Good customer support.
- Integration of more than R.
- Good documentation.
- Automatically advising of updates.
- The pricing model for RStudio Connect makes it an unfeasible prospect for large public sector organisations.
- The sales yes can sometimes feel quite pushy.
RStudio Review
- RStudio is a great partner that listens to our needs with a creative mind focused on improving our work, not just on increasing sales. They were extremely accommodating of the stresses COVID-19 placed on our work and our budgets.
- RStudio provides fantastic access to technical experts to address your needs. This close working relationship was key to implementing a capability researchers are excited to use.
- Language interoperability is a focus of theirs but I look forward to additional improvements. Specifically, I'd like to see more tooling to allow python users to use R code.
- A community plugin ecosystem (like VS Code) could be a compelling feature. I'd love to see what the community might come up with.
- The CSMs are fantastic - they solve our problems with the platform rather than being salespeople in disguise.
- Ease of use - The entire environment is very easy to understand and use, both for developers and non-technical end users.
- Scheduling - We replaced our entire crontab based scheduling system, saving us time through efficiency.
- Git-backed deployment - if you're working with version control already, RStudio Connect works flawlessly with it.
- Python support is still new, though we haven't run into large issues.
- To get Python support, we had to sign up for the mid-pricing tier that comes with 100 users, while we really only needed 10-15 developer seats, so I think some more flexibility in the pricing model would be nice. That said, overall the product seems very(!) reasonably priced.
Makes life easier for analytics developers
- Being a complete IDE
- Integration with RStudio Connect
- Easy to install and administrate
- Could have better integration with free hosting solutions
RStudio Cloud recommendation for teaching
Best all-in-one IDE for R
- Rstudio is very customizable. You can easily change font colors, sizes, and screen layout. I am particular about how I like my IDE setup, so this is a big plus for me.
- Rstudio allows you to look at datasets in your workspace with the click of a button. I do a lot of data manipulation, so I am constantly having to look at datasets after operations to make sure they look correct. The view option in Rstudio makes checking datasets very fast.
- Finally, I love the way Rstudio manages plotting. Your plots can be viewed in one of the panels. Those plots can easily be copy/pasted or exported into a variety of file types. You can also magnify the plots and scroll between plots to look at previous plots.
- Sometimes Rstudio crashes when you work with big datasets.
- I've had some issues installing packages, which is very annoying. Sometimes I can install packages on my PC but not on my Mac, and vice versa.
- Rstudio is not exactly a lightweight IDE, so it is not ideal for computationally intensive tasks.
Not as well suited for any big data tasks or deep learning or image processing.
RStudio Review
- Provides a great interface for our R language
- Easy to implement multiple packages
- Connect feature for viewing the reports.
- SAML integration has been little pain
- Provide support for latest R versions
- Phone support
Using RStudio to solve the pandemic
- Ease of use for Python users to be all in one platform
- Package manager for version control
- Shiny app functionality
- Interaction with AWS system
- Easier access login for multiple institution users
- Secure cognito access for users