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Posit Overview

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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Posit
Year Founded
2009
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"Open source data analysis"
It's free and allows easier integration to R programming. Well set out software and powerful
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"R Posit"
Posit makes easy to use Rstudio in cloud based, and guide for any help if required.
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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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What do you like best about Posit?

R studio is free open-source software and easy to install. It consists of very big libraries that are very useful for data analysis purposes. It provides many features such as we can save our variables in the workspace for a long time, importing variables, can execute particular lines of code without executing the whole program. It requires fewer resources and can run in old and slow hardware also.

It runs big data files in very short time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Posit?

It is just a user interface it can't work without R software so we need to install R separately, it would be so good if it comes with R also. R studio interface is not very simple for beginners it requires practice. Sometimes it crashes due to not proper execution between R and R studio. It takes time to open. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have done some courses which require R for machine learning for that I have used R studio. I have made some projects which require data analysis and data visualization with R.It takes very less time compared to other data analysis tools to execute big data files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Posit?

R Studio is a beneficial software for our online business presence, coding of our online and also the coding of our website. RStudio makes coding easier than most. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Posit?

I have not found many things that I disliked about RStudio Desktop or the use of the program. When I used it seemed the program was very innovative and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

RStudio desktop is benefiting not only myself but our business in the data recovery industry and computer repair industry by making our online coding much easier Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Posit?

I like the way that I can step line by line through my code so I can see my data at every step along the way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Posit?

The language took some getting used to but once I got used to it, I have loved it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Posit:

You may have preferences for other languages but give R and RStudio a try. In my job, I am the primarily analyst and I work with others that are less familiar with software so they would be overwhelmed by Python and RStudio is a lot more user-friendly for the rest of my team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I spend 8 hours a day in Rstudio analyzing data for efficacy of my edTech software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Posit?

The UI is relatively intuitive. I appreciate that I can run the software and see its operation by creating many windows. Additionally, autosuggest prevents me from using Google to research syntax. It is comparable to Eclipse software, thus it meets all requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Posit?

R Studio doesn't have anything I don't like about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Posit:

I highly recommend this program as a powerful tool for big data analysis. It is simple to use and has several capabilities that facilitate the procedure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am actively collecting cancer datasets, and R is an excellent tool for retrieving data from public archives. R contains a variety of packages. It provides several API choices for multiple databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jatin S.
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What do you like best about Posit?

It is open source and has a lot of community support. R language is very powerful and is specialized for data analysis and big data. That makes it a very important tool in data science feild. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Posit?

Setting up environments and working directories every time is very tiresome. Also, the syntax in R is very different from other programming languages and does not provide functionalities outside of mathematics and statistics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have made a lot of Exploratory data analysis projects for my portfolio. I also used it in my internship where I predicted Stock prices using machine learning in R. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Posit?

RStudio is free and allows the user to perform powerful data analysis, visualizations and machine learning on their personal computer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Posit?

The R language, and by extension, RStudio, can have a steep learning curve for people not familiar with object-oriented coding languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

RStudio is giving me and my organization better insights into our data and helping answer questions and solve problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shubham C.
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What do you like best about Posit?

The Easy to navigate User Interface of R Studio, It's easy to install and use it. Its best for Data Scientists as it gives you all the features a data scientist or statistician may require to do using R. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Posit?

User Interface can be improved a lot.

R Studio takes a time to load and becomes non-responding sometimes. Memory management can be improved here.

The learning guide can be improved to include tasks that data scientists do frequently to reduce the learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are giving it to do some data analysis tasks for our project. Also, our data scientists use it to do regression tasks and they like to use it due to its easy-to-use and interactive UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Posit?

It's very user-friendly. As a beginner, it is very easy to learn and it has many different windows showing package, path set, data import simultaneously which make it easier to understand the overall picture at once. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Posit?

The major problem is that Rstudio doesn't work until we install R. and sometimes it may cause problems when R console and R studio clash due the different versions of any R library. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

There are various packages in R. It provides a wide majority of API options for various databases. Right now I am collecting cancer datasets so R plays a wonderful role in that context to fetch the data from public repositories. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Posit?

Rstudio provides for a large number of customizing statistical analyses. Familiarity with other coding languages makes cross-platform coding easy and accessible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Posit?

Open source requires a ton of extra packages to be loaded and additional knowledge to be acquired. In the beginning, I found it really hard and frustrating to learn new tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Posit:

Make use of the huge community on stackoverflow and github. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Environment for solving every statistical problem imaginable as long as you know what you do. This benefits me not only in my research but also insolving private issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Posit?

I like how R studio gives you the flexibility to design graphs and charts in exactly the way that you want just by inputting the correct code. This, for example, is not the case with programs such as Excel, which only have a limited number of options for data visualization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Posit?

I do not like how R studio can be quite complicated compared to other statistics programs, such as Excel. There may be certain analyses or charts that are a simple click in Excel, but require several lines of code to be replicated in R studio. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Posit:

I would definitely recommend R studio to someone who is looking to undertake complex statistical analyses on large datasets, as well as visualize those results using graphs or charts. The flexibility you have with this software is worth the extra effort required to learn the language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I was able to create the exact visuals, charts and graphs that I was after for my reports, and represent my data in multiple ways. Although more difficult to get the hang of, it is definitely better than using Excel to create my graphs and charts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.