Recommended Settings and Extensions in Positron Pro

Positron Pro has a rich ecosystem of settings and extensions that can extend Positron Pro’s functionality, making Positron Pro highly customizable.

In this section, we recommend several configurations and extensions that we have found provide the best user experience for data scientists using Positron Pro on Posit Workbench.

Recommended settings

To learn about ways you can customize your configuration, see the Settings section.

RStudio keybindings

Positron provides an RStudio keymap for users who want to continue using commonly-used keyboard shortcuts from the RStudio IDE.

Recommended extensions

To read more about installing extensions, please refer to the Positron Pro Extensions section.

By default:

• Quarto (the extension and CLI) is bundled with Positron Pro.
• On session launch, Workbench installs Shiny and Publisher.

Quarto

The Quarto extension provides language support for .qmd files. Learn more about Quarto at https://quarto.org.

Shiny

This is an extension to help launch Shiny applications. Shiny is a package for Python and R that is designed to make it easy to build interactive web applications with the powerful data and scientific features of Python and R.

Publisher

Posit Publisher lets you deploy projects to Connect from Positron Pro.

Key concepts:

• Publisher is an extension that presents a UI within the Positron Pro sidebar.
• Deployment options are set via configuration files in .posit/publish/.
• Records of where you have deployed are kept in .posit/publish/deployments.

See the Publisher Installation instructions for more information.