This led to the rebranding of tools and commercial products. RStudio-a name synonymous with open source R development-rebranded itself to better represent the evolving business. There has been a gradual shift of RStudio IDE to be more Python-friendly. Over the years, Posit (formerly, RStudio) has transitioned from R-exclusive tooling to an agnostic language ecosystem. However, the “RStudio” brand has made it difficult to convince organisations to consider its products for Python users.īut does it bring about a belief that Python is somehow supplanting R for the data science ecosystem? Cocktail of languagesĪt Snowday 2022, cloud company ‘Snowflake’ announced new additions to its platform that are set to help data scientists and developers figure out new ways to develop pipelines, applications, and ML models with the firm’s single data platform. RStudio has been emphasising that its commercial products are “bilingual” for both R and Python for many years.

Please check out our new home and let us know what you think! /hzJGXsX0tj- Posit PBC November 2, 2022 While many things will stay the same, our rebrand will result in changes beyond a new name. We have some wonderful news: RStudio is now Posit! 🎉

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