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Positron, a New Data Science IDE


Positron is a new, free IDE from Posit PBC, built for data scientists working with both Python and R, and designed to streamline the entire workflow from exploration to production.

We are excited to introduce Positron, a free, next-generation Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for data science by Posit PBC. Positron provides built-in support for notebooks, Quarto, data apps, and more, enabling a range of common authoring and analysis tasks. Download Positron desktop for free and try out our Quick Start guides Watch the Quick Tour video for an overview of the core features Follow the migration guides from VS Code or RStudio Join the community on GitHub or open a discussion to share feedback and ideas Join us in person or virtually at posit::conf(2025) to hear more about Positron!

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