Wow. RStudio (recently rebranded as Posit) is partnering with Palantir. Yes, the same Palantir with ties to Cambridge Analytica. The same Palantir that partners with and actively supports ICE and other oppressive surveillance.
This is really not ok ethically, and can only mean a bad direction functionally for the company's software going forward. I never use RStudio for research myself, but it looks like I'll stop using it in teaching.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/palantir-posit-partner-integrate-rstudio-115900656.html
@peter_mcmahan is there an alternative with similar advantages for teaching? (in particular I think the debugger is really improved)
@HydrePrever @peter_mcmahan I generally suggest using VSCode, since you can use it for any other language as well. However I don't like telling students they should use a specific environment. I'll let them decide. I've used RStudio for a long time and I believe that, politics aside, they did an amazing job at improving the R community and increase the popularity of R.
While I see some reasons to use base R in some situations I profoundly dislike certain 'holier than thou' attitudes towards using tidyverse or ggplot.
It was that type of attitude that kept me away from using Linux for a long time.
@nicolaromano @peter_mcmahan https://m.xkcd.com/378/