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What do you like best about Posit?

There's so much I can say about R, so I will try and make it short. Firstly, it is an open source tool, which means you can download it for free (for non-commercial purposes)! There are licensing charges for enterprises but it isn't terribly expensive, especially for all that it can do. There are so many add-ons/packages (ggplot2, dplyr, etc.) that allow you to perform specific tasks with ease. R really takes data analysis to the next level and allow you to combine that with enhanced data visualization to know only interpret your data, but display it to your audience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Posit?

For people who have no background in coding of any kind, it can be quite the learning curve. It really takes getting your hands dirty and digging in. The more you practice, the better you get. Like I said earlier, it is FREE, so download it and just starting practicing with some open source data sets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Posit solving and how is that benefiting you?

I work as an analyst for a large healthcare system, and I analysis data from millions of medical records. Performing even some simple statistical analysis would be highly cumbersome in, let's say Excel, with so much data that needs to be analyzed. But R allows me to import that data and perform these procedures with ease. Also, this data needs to be presented to executive level staff so that can use it to make important decision, so packages such as ggplot2 allow me to create visually impactful data visualizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Posit?

Posit was founded with the mission to create open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication. We don’t just say this: it’s fundamentally baked into our corporate charter as a Public Benefit Corporation. Our imperative is not growth at all costs, but rather to build a company that will still be here fulfilling its mission in 100 years. We build popular open-source tools like the RStudio IDE and Shiny, as well as enterprise-level tools for professional data science teams, including Posit Team, Posit Connect, Posit Workbench, and Posit Package Manager.

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In addition to our open-source data science software, RStudio produces RStudio Team, a unique, modular platform of enterprise-ready professional software products that enable teams to adopt R, Python, and other open-source data science software at scale.


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5.0 out of 5
"Open source data analysis"
It's free and allows easier integration to R programming. Well set out software and powerful
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Posit makes easy to use Rstudio in cloud based, and guide for any help if required.
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"Data Science(Machine Learning, Data Visualization) through Posit"
The best part about Posit is that it is Open Source Software. It provides features like Machine Learning, Data Visualization, merging tables by usi...
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Megan P.
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What do you like best about Posit?

It's free and allows easier integration to R programming. Well set out software and powerful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Posit?

Crashes and often needs updating to keep up to date Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Posit solving and how is that benefiting you?

Large datasets and automated data processing. Scripts to make consistent and fast plots Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Posit?

Posit makes easy to use Rstudio in cloud based, and guide for any help if required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Posit?

We were using Rstudio as open sourse but this poist is paid. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Posit solving and how is that benefiting you?

Wide range of library and fuction or a task make us use differenct approch to do analysis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Manan S.
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What do you like best about Posit?

It has a user friendly interface so that it is easy to navigate for multiples customer value platfrom and that thing enhance the overall experience of the customer. Its consistency of performance and realiability are much crucial for others plateform too, So we will Appriciate because this operates very decent without giving technical issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Posit?

When we talk about Posit features while we consider for our essential task then i m dissapointed.It has performance issues of like loading time is much and It delay in response so our productivity growth is down . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Posit solving and how is that benefiting you?

Its manage Our very large volume of data like organize and analyze ,So it help us for better decision making and giving right insights for improved our outcomes.It helps in marketing and sales plateform assist business of reaching our target audience,Track our sales activites and managing some campaigns . So this will be help in our revenue also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Manan S.
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Its consistency of performance and realiablity are much crucial for others plateform,so we will appriciate because this operates very decent without giving any technical issue.It has user friendly interface so that it is easy to navigate for multiple customer value plateform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Posit?

The challenge in posit is lack of standardization compared to established number representations.It has limited features so that when we consider for our essential projects then i m dissapointed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Posit solving and how is that benefiting you?

Posit system can be manage our large volume of data like organise and analyze,So it will benfitial for taking better decisions so we can give right insights for improved our outcomes.It also help in sales and marketing platform assist business of reaching our target peoples,track our business activites and managing campaigns So this help in our revenue growth also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Posit?

Posit is so user-friendly and easily accessible and their product RStudio is just excellent. We can do anything like data pre-processing, analysis, model building and visualization with it literally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Posit?

There is nothing to dislike about Posit as its latest update brought together R, Python, and Java Script under the same umbrella so that we can use any of the programming languages as our own requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Posit solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being a Data Scientist I have to solve many analytical problems using statistical tools and Posit is the exact software to do those tasks efficiently and in more straightforward ways. So, it serves me everything I wanted in my day-to-day work in my organisation from data analysis to generate reports and dashboard building. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Praveen K.
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What do you like best about Posit?

The best part about Posit is that it is Open Source Software. It provides features like Machine Learning, Data Visualization, merging tables by using SQL commands and many more. It has a wonderful user interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Posit?

Must provide inbuilt training related to how to use tool more efficiently rather than depending on external sources. Performance is slow when dealing with huge datasets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Posit solving and how is that benefiting you?

Posit benefits us in many aspects like it helps in the visualization of data, preparing the data science models using machine learning, business intelligence that leads to the growth of an organisation and many more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Posit?

Highly customizable interface. Clean and simple design. Easy to use. I do about 95% of my work in Posit/Rstudio. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Posit?

Nothing really to dislike about Posit. Maybe a little easier to use native code commenting features? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Posit solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helps me to analyze cross-sectional and longitudinal survey data as well as run simple content analyses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Posit?

They provide open-source software. It is of the highest quality the R community has ever seen. They also organize package ecosystems so that other devs work on software that is easily interlinked. RStudio is a Public-benefit corporation that enhances the lives and work of data scientists around the globe. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Posit?

Nothing about RStudio is to be disliked. I personally don't use RStudio Connect or other paid services, but they seem to be very high quality, the same for the open-source ones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Posit solving and how is that benefiting you?

RStudio provides the best R language IDE, ecosystems of packages for data analysis and statistics together with other services that help the R community to prosper. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Posit?

Straightforward syntax, excellent built-in functions and powerful libraries for everything else. Building anything from simple mathematical functions to complicated machine learning models is a breeze. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Posit?

A lack of programmatic functionality can make large dynamic loop functions painful to implement. Debugging tools are also somewhat limited compared to mainstream IDEs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Posit solving and how is that benefiting you?

RStudio allows us to quickly perform large-scale data manipulation and analysis, saving us lots of time and effort. It also enables us to test different ideas and models without much hassle rapidly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tanishq G.
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What do you like best about Posit?

The best thing is, it's Open Source and it has so many features packed in it. We can also save our workspace which helps a lot. It has a separate screen/tab for variable view, plot, help, workspace, directory console etc which helps to see so many things at once and is very helpful. It has many GUI tools also which are very helpful when doing some work directly on the console. Also, its complete feature is good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Posit?

Its GUI can be made a little better, Dark mode can be introduced too. Its GUI was a little hard in the begining, so it's not new user-friendly we have to invest time to understand it. Also maybe a package manager would be good addition which is common in many IDEs now. Also, there should be an option to save console commands till now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Posit solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am analyzing data in my organization using R studio and also making models on it to predict the other data. I also used it when I was learning machine learning. It is a great tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.