A First Look at Positron and Posit Assistant: Free Jumping Rivers Webinar

Choosing a development environment shapes how a team writes, reviews, and ships analysis, so a new IDE is worth a careful look before it becomes part of daily work.

On 13 August, Jumping Rivers is hosting a webinar on a practical question: what do Positron and Posit Assistant offer, and should they be part of your workflow?

Positron is Posit’s latest IDE for data science, positioned as a successor to RStudio, and Posit Assistant is the AI tool that ships with it. The session will be led by Kia Mack, who will demonstrate both tools live rather than talk through them in the abstract.

You can register for the webinar using this form.

What You’ll Learn

This session uses live demos to show Positron and Posit Assistant in use on everyday data science tasks. Kia will walk through:

• Positron vs RStudio: what has changed
• Working with R and Python in Positron
• Posit Assistant in action: querying your data, environment and code
• Whether Positron and Posit Assistant belong in your workflow

The goal is to give R and Python users a clear view of what these tools can do, so the decision to adopt them is based on how they behave in practice.

Why This Matters

RStudio has been the default environment for R users for over a decade, and many teams have built habits, templates, and training around it. Positron changes that picture by supporting R and Python in a single environment, and Posit Assistant adds an AI layer that interacts directly with your data, environment, and code.

Seeing both in use helps teams:

• Assess whether Positron fits existing R and Python workflows
• Understand what an AI assistant can and cannot do with live data and code
• Plan migration decisions before they become urgent
• Stay current with developments in the Posit ecosystem

Adoption decisions are easier to make when you have watched the tools handle familiar tasks.

Continued Learning Benefits

Jumping Rivers encourages teams to stay engaged with the wider webinar series:

• Attend two webinars and receive 20% off tickets to the AI in Production 2027 conference
• Attend more than two webinars and receive 20% off any Jumping Rivers public training course

Event Details

• Date: 13 August 2026
• Time: 1:15 PM (UK time)
• Venue: Online

Register for the webinar using this form to secure your spot.