Post #2511598

2026-05-13 19:01 UTC

I hadn&#39;t used RStudio in a while – partially for not really using R and partially for disliking Posit – but had to use it a bit today. When trying to commit changes, I noticed that RStudio seems to have touched the `.Rbuildignore` and `.gitignore` without ever asking me. The things it added? `.claude` and `.positai`… Bad enough that they push that &quot;AI&quot;-garbage in the first place, but making every user look like they touch that shit? Despicable!

Replies (4)

@Alejandro_P@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-13 19:12

@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social what do you use, vscodium, emacs, something else? I really like how rstudio handles projects but I also am really tired of posit's bs push of AI

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@mjj@mstdn.dk 2026-05-14 10:42

@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social Rstudio did that? That is just disappointing.

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@ftranschel@norden.social 2026-05-14 10:50

@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social wow. That is disappointing to say the least.

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@balcanquhal@tldr.nettime.org 2026-05-14 11:47

@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social I used to use R Studio a lot, but last time I tried it, first I realised they'd made it a skin over VSCode (or at least it's definitely running under Electron, even the non-Posit IDE still called RStudio), and on macintosh it would crash when I tried to change current working directory into the project directory. I resorted to executing scripts written in Emacs/ESS with RScript.

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